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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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