Franz Grillparzer quotes
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“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.”
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“I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.”
-- Franz GrillparzerSource : "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 2, 1848.
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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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“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 we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.”
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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, ever more deeply into the forest.”
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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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“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.”
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“Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.”
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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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“No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.”
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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 their course who set sail.”
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“You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.”
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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.”
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“The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.”
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“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
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“At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.”
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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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“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.”
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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.”
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“When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.”
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“The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.”
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“As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.”
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“Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.”
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“Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.”
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“To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.”
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“Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.”
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“The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.”
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“When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.”
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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, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?”
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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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“I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.”
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“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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“The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.”
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“There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.”
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“Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.”
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“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.”
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“Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger”
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