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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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