Franz Grillparzer Quotes

• I sought you and I found myself.

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• Gold is the gift of vanity and pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.

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• The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To test a modest man’s modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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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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• 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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• 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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• There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

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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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• 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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• The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

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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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• Prose talks and poetry sings.

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• Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

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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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• No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

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Franz Grillparzer (31)

Birth:	15th January, 1791
Death:	21st January, 1872
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Playwright

About

Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer was born in Vienna, Austria. He was an Austrian playwright who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral. He entered the University of Vienna in 1807 as a student of jurisprudence. After obtaining his degree in law from the University of Vienna in 1811, he first became a private tutor for a noble family; then in 1813, he entered the civil service as a clerk at the Imperial and Royal Hofkammer in Austria. He wrote several plays include: The Ancestress, Sappho, and Libussa.

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