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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Bestiality
Humanism
Nationalism
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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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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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