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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Schiller
Goethe
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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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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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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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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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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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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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 someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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 flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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