Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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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• The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

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  Ideas, Age, Crowded

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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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• To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

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  Gun, Feet, Arms

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• When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

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  Tasks, Poet, Theater

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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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• Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.

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  Flower, Pride, Love And Friendship

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• What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

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  Character, Poetry, World

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• Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

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  Food, Prose And Poetry, Different

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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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• 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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• Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

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  Life, Self, Views

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• Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

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  Feet, Imagination, Body

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

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  Uplifting, Distance, Rushing

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• Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

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  Freedom, Pedants, Pedantry

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• German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

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  Freedom, Radicalism, Masturbation

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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 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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