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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
Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Franz Grillparzer
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
Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
Franz Grillparzer
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Franz Grillparzer
The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
Franz Grillparzer
The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
Franz Grillparzer
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
Franz Grillparzer
Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
Franz Grillparzer
The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Franz Grillparzer
It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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