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Franz Grillparzer - From the Aging category:
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Audience category:
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Complaining category:
No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Critics category:
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Culture category:
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Doubt category:
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)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Fire category:
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)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Freedom category:
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Gender category:
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. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Genius category:
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Gratitude category:
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Humanity category:
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. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Humility category:
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Ideas category:
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Knowledge category:
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. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Limitations category:
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Masters category:
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)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Mirrors category:
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)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Perception category:
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Poetry category:
Prose talks and poetry sings. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Progress category:
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Purpose category:
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. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Silence category:
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges, be at least witnesses. (Franz Grillparzer)
Franz Grillparzer - From the Trust category:
Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled. (Franz Grillparzer)
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