Franz Grillparzer Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• 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

  Self, Arrogance, Age

• Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Age, Hours, Decline

• The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Ideas, Age, Crowded

• Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Age, Aging

• Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Truth, Past, Yesterday

• Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Children, Knowledge, Men

• Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Average, Two, Mind

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