"If someone were to think that trees are……" — Franz Grillparzer
"If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short."
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45 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer has 45 quotes on this site.
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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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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an…
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble…
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those…
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No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you…
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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…
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be…
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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…
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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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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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