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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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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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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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