All Franz Grillparzer Quotes
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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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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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
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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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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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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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