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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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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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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
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