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Franz Grillparzer quotes: Never expect any recognition herethe system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross. Never expect any recognition here
the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one. Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone. The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself. I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: 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. 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.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Robespierre, this pedant of freedom! Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician. The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident. There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground. Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time. Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original. Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion. Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Servants honor their master by their service. Servants honor their master by their service.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Love! Hate! Is there no third? Love! Hate! Is there no third?
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses. Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality. The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above. Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum. Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love. A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady. The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please. The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people. The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: It is good insofar as it is not evil. It is good insofar as it is not evil.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: 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. 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.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one. Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless. I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest. Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed. Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me. No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty. It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction. The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance. How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning? Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
Franz Grillparzer quotes: I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow. Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream! The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
Franz Grillparzer quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Transcendence: that which transcends experience. Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servantthese three have a hard life. A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant
these three have a hard life.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small. Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly. My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools. Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: History is the zoology of the human race. History is the zoology of the human race.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there. In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief. Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imaginationit would turn into a masterpiece. I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination
it would turn into a masterpiece.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light. Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire. At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think. If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces. A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along. Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate. Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet. A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse. Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex. A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson. He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: German diligence is actually endurance. German diligence is actually endurance.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine. The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: We have money like manure. Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: We have money like manure.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother. Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered. Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill. The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility. The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Much as I honor the wisdom of the princessthere is something more dashing about a man. Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess
there is something more dashing about a man.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal. The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Prose talks and poetry sings. Prose talks and poetry sings.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental - far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental - far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external. Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers. Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present. As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: 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. 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.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel. Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds. A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake. A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight. How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: 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. 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 quotes: When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones. When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the funthe body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh. Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun
the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning. A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense. Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require. No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens. Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.
Franz Grillparzer quotes: Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame. Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

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