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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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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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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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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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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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