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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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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.
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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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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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