The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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.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
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
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
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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.
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
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