Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 6

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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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  Boys, Ideas, Arrogance

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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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• I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

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  Looks, Candid, Stamps

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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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  Thinking, Hair, Sky

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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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• German diligence is actually endurance.

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  Endurance, Criminals, Diligence

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• Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

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  Law, People, Different

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• As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

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  Art, Appreciate, Understanding

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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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• 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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• 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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• Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

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  Writing, Speech, Abbreviations

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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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• The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

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  Art, Essence, Understanding

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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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• Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

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  Art, Nature, Wine

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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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• When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

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  Nature, Science, Hermeneutics

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• Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

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  History, Historical, Attention

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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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• German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

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  Freedom, Radicalism, Masturbation

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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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• Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

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  Time, Work, Appreciate

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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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  Speed, Slow Down, Bits

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• Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

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  Freedom, Pedants, Pedantry

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