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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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More quotes by Franz Grillparzer
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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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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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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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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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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Freedom requires guns.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
Franz Grillparzer
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
Franz Grillparzer
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
Franz Grillparzer
