Facts about Franz Grillparzer

Occup.	Poet
From	Austria
Born	January 15, 1791
Died	January 21, 1872
Aged	81 years

Summary

Franz Grillparzer was a famous Poet from Austria, who lived between January 15, 1791 and January 21, 1872. He/she became 81 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac capricorn, who is known for Determination, Dominance, Perservering, Practical, Willful. Our collection contains 28 quotes who is written / told by Franz.

28 Famous quotes by Franz Grillparzer

"Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it"

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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"

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"Prose talks and poetry sings"

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"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun"

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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"

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"The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception"

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"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"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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"The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas"

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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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"To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism"

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"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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"If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short"

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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"

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"There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son"

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"Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass"

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"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave"

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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"

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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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