Every mistake has three stages first, it is made, second, it is not admitted, and third, its claimed it didnt make any difference anyway. (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)
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)
No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. (Franz Grillparzer)
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)
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. (Franz Grillparzer)
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. (Franz Grillparzer)
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)
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)
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)
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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past. (Franz Grillparzer)
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)
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)
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