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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Goethe
Upward
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Greatness
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Schiller
More quotes by Franz Grillparzer
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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
Franz Grillparzer
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
Franz Grillparzer
It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
Franz Grillparzer
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.
Franz Grillparzer
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Franz Grillparzer
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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
Franz Grillparzer
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!
Franz Grillparzer
The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
Franz Grillparzer
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
Franz Grillparzer
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.
Franz Grillparzer
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
Franz Grillparzer
As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
Franz Grillparzer
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
Franz Grillparzer
