Franz Grillparzer Quotes

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• To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
• Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
• Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
• I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
• If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
• 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,…
• 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…
• No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
• 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…
• Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
• Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
• When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
• 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…
• Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
• I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
• I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

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