Franz Grillparzer Quotes
"Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it."
- Franz Grillparzer
"The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception."
- Franz Grillparzer
"The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Age, Ideas)
"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."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Ideas, Arrogance, Nothing, Quest)
"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."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Knowledge, Ocean, Want)
"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Feet, Freedom)
"To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Applause, Criticism, Man, Modesty)
"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."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Trust, Home, Building, Will)
"You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Friend, Stupidity)
"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."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Men, Women, Approval, Fact, Reason)
"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."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Poetry, Science, Art, Goal, Purpose, Journey, Prose)
"Prose talks and poetry sings."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Poetry, Prose)
"When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Mob, Open, Theater)
"I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Nature, Woman)
"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Wisdom, Genius, Sun)
"Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Thought, Idea, Ideas, Thoughts)
"If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Sky, Support, Trees)
"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."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Work, Danger, Errors, May, Will)
"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
(Related: Character, Misfortune)
"Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Knowledge, Judges)
"Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Progress, Will)
"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."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Progress, Day, Mankind)
"There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Home, Mother, Son)
"No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Help, Opinions, Will)
"No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: People, Cause)
"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."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Work, Poetry, Life, Literature)
"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: People, Laws)