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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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More quotes by Franz Grillparzer
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Franz Grillparzer
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
Franz Grillparzer
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.
Franz Grillparzer
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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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.
Franz Grillparzer
Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Franz Grillparzer
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Franz Grillparzer
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
Franz Grillparzer
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
Franz Grillparzer
Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
Franz Grillparzer
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
Franz Grillparzer
