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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• 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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• Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

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• Before passing different laws for different people, I’d relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

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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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• 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 we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

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

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

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• Prose talks and poetry sings.

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

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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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