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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Bestiality
Humanism
Nationalism
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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