Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 8

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

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  Ideas, Age, Crowded

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• Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

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  Progress, Recourse

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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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  Gun, Feet, Arms

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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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  Tasks, Poet, Theater

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• Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

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  Law, People, Different

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• When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

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  Too Much, Stakes, Insight

  "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 1, 1848.

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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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  Character, Thinking, Dare

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• Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

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  Judging, Needs, Silent

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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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  Mirrors, Looks, Literature

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• At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

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  Men, Fire, Flames

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• To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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  Humility, Pride, Men

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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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  Boys, Ideas, Arrogance

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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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  Ideas, Realizing, Failing

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• I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

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  Looks, Candid, Stamps

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• If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

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  Thinking, Hair, Sky

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• 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.

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  Believe, Errors, Often Is

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• Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

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  Progress, Forests, Mankind

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

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  Art, Age, Aging

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• 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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  Flower, Pride, Love And Friendship

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• What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

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  Character, Poetry, World

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• From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

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  Uplifting, Distance, Rushing

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• You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

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  Freedom, Government, Wish

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• Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

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  Freedom, Pedants, Pedantry

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• German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

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  Freedom, Radicalism, Masturbation

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• The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

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  Men, Perfection, Noble

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