Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 6

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• Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

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  House, Stupidity, Acres

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• Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

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  Rights, Two, Proof

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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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• Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

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  Strength, Majesty, Clamor

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

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  Father, Men, Cities

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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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• They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

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  Grieving, Needs, Austria

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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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• 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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• Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

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  Common Sense, Natural, Wit

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• Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

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  Queens, Power, Honey

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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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• 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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• 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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• Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

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  Loneliness, Excellence, Property

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• The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

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  Food, Giving, Office

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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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• Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

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  Rights, People, Justice

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