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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
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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).
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