Franz Grillparzer quotes

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. (Franz Grillparzer)
I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. View quote
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I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else. View quote
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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. View quote
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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. View quote
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power. View quote
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. View quote
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When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental-far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. (Franz Grillparzer)
The irreligious are more religious than they themselves know, and the religious are less so than they think. View quote
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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. View quote
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light. View quote
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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. View quote
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Franz Grillparzer)
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. View quote
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. View quote
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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. View quote
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Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. View quote
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