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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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Let The Famous Not Denounce Fame. Far From Being Empty And Meaningless, It Fills Those It Touches With Divine Power.

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Even With Limited Intelligence, Knowing Oneself Is Not As Difficult As Some Say, But To Act According To What One Has Realized About Oneself In Real Life Is As Difficult As Practicing Anything Else, Compared To Theory.

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.

The Present Is Never Poetic As It Serves Necessity, Necessity, However, Is Prosaic.

I Would Love To Be Able To Write A Tragedy In My Imagination--it Would Turn Into A Masterpiece.

It's The Misfortune Of German Authors That Not A Single One Of Them Dares To Expose His True Character. Everyone Thinks That He Has To Be Better Than He Is.

Trying To Conceal A Crime Is Like Burying A Seed In The Ground.

The Course Of Modern Learning Leads From Humanism Via Nationalism To Bestiality.

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Transcendence: That Which Transcends Experience.

Much As I Honor The Wisdom Of The Princess--there Is Something More Dashing About A Man.

You Even Called Me Stupid In Your Verse, And I'm Almost Agreeing, For Where Stupidity Is Involved, You Are Quite An Expert, Friend.

The Thing That Pleases Is Not Always Good And, Helas, The Good Thing Does Not Always Please.

I Am A Woman, And Even If I Could Proceed With Harshness And Rigidity, It Would Disgust Me Nonetheless.

A Person Who Looks Different All The Time Frightens Me. Only One Animal Changes Its Skin: The Snake.

Right And Proof Are Two Crutches For Everything Bent And Crooked That Limps Along.

Let The Will Embrace The Highest Ideals Freely And With Infinite Strength, But Let Action First Take Hold Of What Lies Closest.

How Frightening It Is To Have Reached The Height Of Human Accomplishment In Art That Must Forever Borrow From Life's Abundance.

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.

A Woman's Passion Is Not The Measure Of A Man's Love.

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To Declaim Freedom Verses Seems Like A Poem Within A Poem; Freedom Requires Guns, It Requires Arms, But No Feet.

A Love That Dies Has Never Lived.

Christianity Is The Religion Of Melancholy And Hypochondria. Islam, On The Other Hand, Promotes Apathy, And Judaism Instills Its Adherents With A Certain Choleric Vehemence, The Heathen Greeks May Well Be Called Happy Optimists.

Why I Love The Ancients So Much? Aside From Everything Else, When I Read Them, The Entire Past Between Them And Me Unfolds At Thesame Time. The Hearts Of How Many Heroes And Poets May Have Been Set On Fire By Plutarch's Biographies Which Now Inspire Me With Their Own And With Borrowed Flames!

The Noble Woman Is Half A Man, Even A Complete One. Only Their Imperfections Make Them Women.

You Ardently Strive For Freedom, And I Do Wish You Were Free--but, Rather Than For Your Sake, So That Government Won't Be.

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Although Your Knowledge Is Weak And Small, You Need Not Be Silent: Since You Cannot Be Judges Be At Least Witnesses.

If Someone Took The Finest Marble And Knew How To Shape It Artfully: Prometheus' Material Was Lowly Clay, But His Statues Walked.

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History Is The Zoology Of The Human Race.

It Is Fair To Despise A Cowardly Man, But The Female Sex Is Strongest When It's Weak.

Jealousy Is A Grievous Passion That Jealously Seeks What Causes Grief.

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Our Poetry Emulates The Recent Progress In Military Strategy: Our Army's Strength Is The Foot Soldiers.

People Of Talent Resemble A Musical Instrument More Closely Than They Do A Musician. Without Outside Help, They Produce Not A Single Sound, But Given Even The Slightest Touch, And A Magnificent Tune Emanates From Them.

When We Interpret Nature, We Refer Phenomena That Are Rarely Entirely Unintelligible Back To Something That Actually Exists, But Is Equally Unintelligible.

Prose Talks And Poetry Sings.

Do Hurry And Proclaim The Concordat. Then Castrate Yourselves To Keep From Sinning.

The Manifestation Of Poetry In External Life Is Formal Perfection. True Sentiment Grows Within, And Art Must Represent Internal Phenomena Externally.

Genius Differs From Talent Not By The Amount Of Original Thoughts, But By Making The Latter Fertile And By Positioning Them Properly, In Other Words, By Integrating Everything Into A Whole, Whereas Talent Produces Only Fragments, No Matter How Beautiful.

There Shall Be No Slave In Your Home, Male Or Female: Least Of All The Mother Of Your Son.

A Wise Man Can And Should Stand Above His Times, Not So The Poet, But He Should Be Their Apex.

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.

It Is Open To Question Whether The Highly Individualized Characters We Find In Shakespeare Are Perhaps Not Detrimental To The Dramatic Effect. The Human Being Disappears To The Same Degree As The Individual Emerges.

The Old Harlot, German Philosophy, Has Finally Turned Into A Church Lady.

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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.

The Art Of Acting Presupposes Three Phases: Understanding A Part, Intuiting A Part, And Contemplating The Essence Of A Part.

Profundity Easily Turns Into Dullness And Astuteness Deteriorates Into Wit. Be Guided By Natural Common Sense And It Will Accommodate Great And Small.

The Sun Of A Prince's Good Graces Resembles That In The Skies In That It Shines Most Kindly Upon The Blackest People.

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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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What's The Meaning Of All The Pious Clamor, Condemning Cocks And Hens? Those Who Have No Teeth Are The Greatest Meat-haters.

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.

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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Once You Have Looked At The Land From Atop The Kahlenberg, You Will Understand What I Write And Who I Am.

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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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Drink And Be Thankful To The Host! What Seems Insignificant When You Have It, Is Important When You Need It.

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The Graceful Flowers Of Innocence Are More Valuable Than The Laurel Crown Of Fame.

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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 I Was Still A Boy.

If Someone Were To Think That Trees Are Made To Support The Sky, They Would All Seem Too Short.

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Piety Is The Fermentation Of The Forming Mind And The Putrefaction Of The Disintegrating One.

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The State Has No Religion For The Simple Reason That It Has Each And Everyone.

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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.

Progress Will Always Have As Its Recourse To Exaggerate What It Cannot Surpass.

From A Distance The Rushing Of The Torrent Delights And Uplifts Us, But It Rocks Us In A Flimsy Boat, We Are Overwhelmed By Despair. The Same Applies To Danger.

When Mundane, Lowly Activities Are At Stake, Too Much Insight Is Detrimental — Far-sightedness Errs In Immediate Concerns.

Drive The Women From The Bed Just As You Drove Them From The Choir; A Eunuch Sings In Rome, And The Priests Masturbate.

Since People No Longer Attend Church, Theater Remains As The Only Public Service, And Literature As The Only Private Devotion.

It's Actually The Spirit Helping The Spirit; It Is The Doctor, The Bed, The Potion.

The Way In Which Modern German Poetry Follows Theories Reminds Me Of Pupils Who, Scolded By Their Teacher For Their Insubordination, Justify Themselves By Saying That They Invented New Rules Of Propriety According To Which They Are Quite Well- Behaved.

I Love The Pride Whose Measure Is Its Own Eminence And Not The Insignificance Of Someone Else.

Metaphysics Must Be Based On What Exists, For It Has The Task Of Explicating It.

As Youth Lives In The Future, So The Adult Lives In The Past: No One Rightly Knows How To Live In The Present.

Is It True That One Travels In Order To Know Mankind? It Is Easier To Get To Know Other People At Home, But Abroad One Gets To Know Oneself.

It Is The Emotions To Which One Objects In Germany Most Of All.

The Ideas Of An Age Are Most Abundant Where They Are Not Crowded By Original Ideas.

Those Who Want To Row On The Ocean Of Human Knowledge Do Not Get Far, And The Storm Drives Those Out Of Their Course Who Set Sail.

Man Lives Two Lives, Woe, Were It Otherwise! One Is Seized By Death, The Other One, His Honor, Remains.

He Who Takes People For Smart Pays An Expensive Lesson.

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Poetry And Music

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.

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.

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.

The Character Of The Crowds Is Made Up Of Mimicry And Hostility.

It Is Not A Matter Of Desire, But Of Coercion And Duty.

Austrian Soldiers Are Like Horses: Brave But Easily Frightened.

Let No One Say That Taking Action Is Hard. Action Is Aided By Courage, By The Moment, By Impulse, And The Hardest Thing In The World Is Making A Decision.

Art Is Eternally Young, But The Poet Ages. If Only He Remained As Young As Art! If Only It Aged With Him!

What Is Done For The Children Is Doubly Beneficial, Since Their Success, Obvious To Everyone, Educates The Parents As Well.

When The Theater Gates Open, A Mob Pours Inside, And It Is The Poet's Task To Turn It Into An Audience.

The First Indication Of A Young Person's Growing Smarter Is That He No Longer Understands The Things Which He Used To Consider Quite Intelligible And Self-evident.

The Prince Exults Whomever He Selects As His Consort, But The Queen, Rather Than Elevating The Subject Of Her Choice, Humiliates Him As A Man. By All That Is Right, A Man Is Not Intended To Be The Husband Of His Wife, But A Woman Is To Be Her Husband's Wife.

I Look Around Me And Nowhere Do I See A Stamp Of Disapproval With Which Nature Marked A Woman's Candid Brow.

Art Compares To Nature Like Wine To The Grape.

As Far As The Arts And The Sciences Are Concerned, The German Mind Appreciates Most Highly That Which It Does Not Understand Of The Latter, And That Which It Does Not Enjoy Of The Former.

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.

Plato Calls Complacency The Companion Of Loneliness.

Gold Schenkt Die Eitelkeit, Der Rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft Und Die Liebe Schenken Blumen. Gold Is The Gift Of Vanityand Pride, Friendship And Love Offer Flowers.

Love And Friendship

Today Is, After All, Today, But Yesterday Is Of The Same Substance As Tomorrow.

Who Could Deny That Our Austria Is Richer Than Any Other Country? As The Saying Goes: "we Have Money Like Manure.

Boundless In Your Charity, But Shrewd And Cautious As A Lender, You Delight All Those Today Whom You Made Beggars The Day Before.

The Military And The Clergy Cause Us Much Annoyance; The Clergy And The Military, They Empty Our Wallets And Rob Our Intelligence.

Es Binden Sklavenfesseln Nur Die H A« Nde, Der Sinn, Er Macht Den Freien Und Den Knecht. The Chains Of Slavery Can Only Bind The Hands. The Mind Makes Us Either Free Or Enslaved.

German Radicalism: Freedom-masturbation.

Grief, First Take On Shape! What Is Shapeless Causes Fear And Torment But When The Enemy Materializes, Half The Victory Is Won.

I Cannot Be Exacting Because I Respect Myself.

I Respect Myself

Those Whom The Gods Chose As Their Property Must Not Consort With Mortals.

A Book Is Quite A Beautiful Thing, Even More So Learning. Together, However, All They Amount To Is Called Book-learning.

Disregard For The Consequences And For Right And Wrong Nowadays Passes As Energy.

Someone Who Is Reluctant To Say What He Needs To Say, Often Ends Up Doing So With An Insolence Whose Crassness Is Proportionate Tohis Fear, Once He Gathers The Necessary Courage.

Man Will Return To His Origins. Goethe Has Finally Become As Squiggly As The City Of His Fathers.

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.

The Cradle Of The Future Is The Grave Of The Past.

Do Old People Always Live In The Past? What Yesterday Was Firm And True, May Not Be So Today.

Morality, A Muzzle For The Will; Logic, A Climbing Iron For The Mind.

Critics Are Reprimanded When They Get Sarcastic. How Absurd! Is The Torch Of Criticism Supposed To Shine Without Burning?

Prose And Poetry Are As Different As Food And Drink.

Prose And Poetry

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.

Erroneous Views And Presumptuousness Send A Talent To The Insane Asylum.

Lap-dogs And Blood-hounds Enjoy The Greatest Respect At Court; House-dogs And No Dogs At All Are Not Even Considered.

Love! Hate! Is There No Third?

In The Arts, Foolhardiness Is Always Harmful; Even Worse, However, Is Clumsiness.

I've Never Been On Good Terms With God, But Now I'm Becoming His Intimate, For He Is Truly Absolute And Extremely Legitimate.

Do Not Push So Fast Ahead, Do Slow Down A Bit! Otherwise You Won't Catch Up With Yourselves.

It Is Good Insofar As It Is Not Evil.

Science And Art, Or By The Same Token, Poetry And Prose Differ From One Another Like A Journey And An Excursion. The Purpose Of The Journey Is Its Goal, The Purpose Of An Excursion Is The Process.

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.

Freedom Requires Guns.

Chance Arrives Unannounced. It Emerges, And When It Leaves, We Are Lucky If The Changes It Has Produced Are Only External.

You Can Make The Best Of It And Be Content, Or You Can Complain, It Makes No Difference. What Does It Matter That Human Beings Judge The Things That Exist?

You Say I'm Small? I Certainly Can Relate, Although It Is A Matter Of Perspective. The Distance Is Deceptive, My Friend, You Standtoo Low.

What Raises Great Poetry Above All Else--it Is The Entire Person And Also The Entire World.

Robespierre, This Pedant Of Freedom!

Two Soldiers And A Villain Are Enough To Blow Up The Rights Of The Citizens.

When Receiving An Order, Many Servants Repeat Their "yes" Numerous Times, Especially The Lazy Ones.

In Germany, A Certain Artistic Sense Is Fairly Common, But The Artist's Sense Is Foreign There.

Woman Is The Crown Of All Creation, But Man Is The Head Who Wears It, And Even The Servant Is Master In His House.

Uneducated People Are Unfortunate In That They Do Grasp Complex Issues, Educated People, On The Other Hand, Often Do Not Understand Simplicity, Which Is A Far Greater Misfortune.

Nothing Genuinely Historical Was Ever Lost In This Country. For This Reason We Have Two Ruling Parties: Villains And Fools.

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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