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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.
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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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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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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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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