Franz Grillparzer quotes - page 2

Prose talks and poetry sings. (Franz Grillparzer)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. View quote
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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. View quote
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. View quote
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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. View quote
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Franz Grillparzer)
Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills. View quote
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past. View quote
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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. View quote
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