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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

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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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Modern
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Bestiality
Humanism
Nationalism

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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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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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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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Freedom requires guns.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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