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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Freedom requires guns.
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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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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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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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