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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

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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Schiller
Goethe
Upward
Moves
Greatness
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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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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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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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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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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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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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