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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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
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More quotes by Franz Grillparzer
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
Franz Grillparzer
Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
Franz Grillparzer
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
Franz Grillparzer
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
Franz Grillparzer
Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
Franz Grillparzer
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
Franz Grillparzer
Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
Franz Grillparzer
It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
Franz Grillparzer
How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
Franz Grillparzer
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
Franz Grillparzer
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
Franz Grillparzer
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
Franz Grillparzer
Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
Franz Grillparzer
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
Franz Grillparzer
Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Franz Grillparzer
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Franz Grillparzer
Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
Franz Grillparzer
