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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Robespierre
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Pedants
Pedantry
Freedom
More quotes by Franz Grillparzer
Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
Franz Grillparzer
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
Franz Grillparzer
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
Franz Grillparzer
It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
Franz Grillparzer
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
Franz Grillparzer
Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
Franz Grillparzer
Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
Franz Grillparzer
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
Franz Grillparzer
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
Franz Grillparzer
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
Franz Grillparzer
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
Franz Grillparzer
I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
Franz Grillparzer
Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
Franz Grillparzer
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
Franz Grillparzer
Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
Franz Grillparzer
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
Franz Grillparzer
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
Franz Grillparzer