Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 5

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• Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

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  Average, Two, Mind

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• No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

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  Matter, Ridiculous, Ends

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• The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

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  Teacher, Poetry, Way

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• A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

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  Love, Passion, Men

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• The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

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  Art, Believe, Skills

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• Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

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  Thinking, Gold, May

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• Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

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  House, Stupidity, Acres

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• The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

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  Respect, Squares, Justice

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• Servants honor their master by their service.

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  Honor, Masters, Servant

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• Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

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  Strength, Military, Army

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• Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

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  Art, Age, Aging

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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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  People, Religion, Church

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• The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Religion

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• Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

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  Children, Religion, Looks

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• How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

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  Life, Art, Accomplishment

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• In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

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  Art, Germany, Common

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• Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

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  Rights, People, Justice

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• Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

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  Food, Healthy, Waste

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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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  Mean, Self, Privilege

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• North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

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  Competition, Peaceful, Territory

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• Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

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  Thanksgiving, Being Thankful, Important

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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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  Ideas, Realizing, Failing

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• If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

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  Believe, Errors, Often Is

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• It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

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  Character, Thinking, Dare

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• When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

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  Too Much, Stakes, Insight

  "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 1, 1848.

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