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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
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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