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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

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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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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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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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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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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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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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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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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