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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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 cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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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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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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.
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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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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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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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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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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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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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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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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
Franz Grillparzer
The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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