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Adam Müller

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German publicist, literary critic, political economist, and theorist of the state

Person · Open Library

Born
1852
Died
1923
Works
39

Top works

  • Im Jahrhundert Grillparzers
  • Ruhmeshalle deutscher Arbeit in der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie
  • Altwiener Wanderungen und Schïlerungen
  • Trost- und Trutz-Büchlein der Deutschen in Oesterreich
  • Erinnerungen eines Theaterdirektors

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5
Total plays
9

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Quotes

  • Man is endowed with a thousandfold desires and infinite longings, and thus has been sent into a world that would be rich enough to grant even more than he can demand. Every glow of the heart finds its shadow, every thirst its wave, every longing its distance, and countless hidden, well-protected refuges are prepared for the soul that strives for safety and peace.
  • Man cannot be conceived outside of the state.
  • The state is [...] an alliance of past generations with the following ones, and vice versa. It is an alliance not only of contemporaries, but also of 'spatial contemporaries'; [...] The state is not merely the union of many 'living side by side', but also of many 'succeeding one another' families.
  • [...] the soul feels, in contemplation of the landscape, a gentle being-carried, a movement as if by an invisible spirit, through which lingering on the charming details first gains its appeal.
  • A poem is a whole, complete 'made' world: a fiction is a half, incomplete, poorly made piece of world.
  • An artist who forgets the world over his work will never speak to the world through the work, may perhaps tear the work dead from himself, but will never be able to close it into its own free and necessary life.

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