Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 9

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• Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

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  Future, Yesterday, Substance

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• The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

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  Character, Crowds, Mimicry

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• In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

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  Running, Men, Alone Man

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• It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

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  Strength, Sex, Men

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• Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

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  Marriage, Men, House

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• Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

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  Genius, Recognition, Crosses

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• Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

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  Freedom, Air, Order

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• Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

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  Food, Prose And Poetry, Different

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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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• The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

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  Poetry, Poetic, Poet

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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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• 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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• Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

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  Children, Knowledge, Men

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• A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

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  Love, Men, May

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• Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

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  Respect, Dog, Power

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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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