Franz Grillparzer Quotes

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• Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sun, Lightning, Genius

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• A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

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  Beautiful, Book, Together

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• Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

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  Skills, Two, Use

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• Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

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  Beautiful, Moon, Light

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• No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

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  Needs, Helping, Opinion

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• The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

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  Modern, Courses, Humanism

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• I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

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  Pride, Eminence, Insignificance

  "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 2, 1848.

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• Freedom requires guns.

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  Gun

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• I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

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  Wife, Infidelity, Honor

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• Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

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  Trying, Crime, Burying

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• How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

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  Goal, Humanity, Progress

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• As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

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  Past, Adults, Youth

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• Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

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  Energy, Ruthlessness, Disregard

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• Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

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  Climbing, Iron, Mind

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• No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

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  People, Causes, Caricatures

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• The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

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  Flower, Simplicity, Crowns

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• People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

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  Inspirational, Music, People

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• Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

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  Honesty, Power, People

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• A love that dies has never lived.

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  Love, Death, Dying

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• Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

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  Profound, Simplicity, Achievement

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• Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

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  Travel, Home, Knowledge

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• Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

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  Hands, Mind, Slavery

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• He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

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  Smart, People, Intelligence

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• Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

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  Hands, Greek, Islam

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• Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

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  Love, Wise, Women

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