Franz Grillparzer Quotes

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

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. - Franz Grillparzer

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

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. - Franz Grillparzer

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

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. - Franz Grillparzer

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

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

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. - Franz Grillparzer

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. - Franz Grillparzer

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