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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
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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