Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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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• Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

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  Love, Friendship, Flower

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

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Religion

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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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• 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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• 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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• The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

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  Mind, May, Invisible

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• Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

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  Tasks, Metaphysics, Empiricism

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• It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

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  Germany, Emotion, Objects

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• The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

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  Diplomats, Politician, Excellent

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• Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

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  Country, Party, Government

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• The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

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  Men, Perfection, Noble

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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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• Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

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  Respect, Dog, Power

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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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  Sound, Poetry And Music, Tone

  "Notebooks and Diaries". Book by Franz Grillparzer, 1820.

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• Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

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  Progress, Recourse

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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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  Anger, Together, Examination

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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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  Strength, Sex, Men

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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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• If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

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  Change, Book, Long

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• An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

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  Country, Uprising, Resistance

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• Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

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  Art, Appreciate, Judging

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