Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 7

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

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  Moving, Greatness

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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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• 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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• 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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• How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

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  Life, Art, Accomplishment

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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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• To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

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  People, Support, Prussia

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• When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

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  Time, Order, Lazy

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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 early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

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  World, Fossils, Bones

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• You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

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  Stupid, Silly, Experts

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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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• Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

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  Divine Power, Fame, Empty

  "Sappho". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 1 Scene 5, 1818.

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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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• Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

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  Thanksgiving, Being Thankful, Important

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• Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

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  Home, Uprising, Two

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