Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 7

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

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  Germany, Emotion, Objects

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• Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.

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  Fun, Heart, Body

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• In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

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  Art, Clumsiness

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

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  Time, Work, Appreciate

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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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  Writing, Who I Am, Land

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• Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

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  Blow, Rights, Two

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• German diligence is actually endurance.

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  Endurance, Criminals, Diligence

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• The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

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  Life, Art, Perfection

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• Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors?
  Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).

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  Art, Order, Poetry

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• A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

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  Poetry, Criticism, Tailors

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• No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

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  War, Cutting, Knives

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• What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

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  Beauty, Assessment, Appreciate

  "A Primer on Environmental Decision-Making: An Integrative Quantitative Approach". Book by Knut Lehre Seip, Fred Wenstop, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 184, 2006.

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• Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Uplifting

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• A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

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  Music, Art, Laughing

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• Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

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  Wisdom, Princess, Men

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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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• Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

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  Art, Nature, Wine

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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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• A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

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  Healing, Ignorance, Stupidity

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• In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

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  Country, Animal, Intelligent

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• The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Plot

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