Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 9

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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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• What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

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  Hypocrisy, Hens, Meat

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• Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

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  Running, Accomplishment, Priorities

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• The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

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  Country, Wall, Chinese

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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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• 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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• Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

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  Thinking, Honor, Thieves

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• A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

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  Heart, Joy, Boisterous

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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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• 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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• 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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• The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

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  Simple, Religion, Reason

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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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• It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

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  Drama, Character, Degrees

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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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• 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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• It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

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  Healing, Doctors, Medicine

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