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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
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Bestiality
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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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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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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.
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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.
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