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Franz Grillparzer has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The…
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when…
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of…
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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…
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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if…
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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure,…
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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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The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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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,…
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As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part…
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Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can…
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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
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There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal…
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When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or…
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Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like…
— Martha Plimpton
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The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you…
— Terry Eagleton
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Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the…
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