Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

Franz Grillparzer

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• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Left
  • August
  • Stayed

• It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Leadership
  • Army
  • Lion

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Work
  • Successful
  • Village

• When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • You
  • Structure
  • Ear

• When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.

  

  Raekwon
  • Think
  • Want
  • Career

• Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Always
  • Fish
  • Brown

• Some Saian mountaineerStruts today with my shield.I threw it down by a bush and ranWhen the fighting got hot.Life seemed somehow more precious.It was a beautiful shield.I know where I can buy anotherExactly like it, just as round.

  

  Archilochus
  • Life
  • Today
  • Beautiful

• As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Men
  • Live
  • Law

• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Help

• There is not a single criterion which can serve as the measure of the non-existent, of the non-human.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Single

• Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

  

  Adrian Cronauer
  • Political
  • Unity

• I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Fall
  • Deep

• I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Silly

• I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.

  

  Kian Lawley
  • Up

• If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Life
  • Game

• You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • People
  • Control

• We're the youngest team in the NFL. They're not supposed to be doing anything. They are supposed to be the youngest team, but they didn't look like it.

  

  Bud Adams
  • NFL
  • Youngest Team

• Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Children

• Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

  

  Franz Grillparzer