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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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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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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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