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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
Bestiality
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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