Franz Grillparzer Quotes

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Franz Grillparzer

Profession : Poet

Birth : January 15, 1791

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Franz Grillparzer

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Franz Grillparzer

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Franz Grillparzer

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

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

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

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

Franz Grillparzer