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

#boy #clear #doubting #had #i

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

#drives #far #get #human #human knowledge

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#declaim #feet #freedom #guns #like

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

— Franz Grillparzer

#criticism #find #ignores #investigate #man

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#gates #inside #into #mob #open

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#been #building #dismantled #his #home

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

#conviction #convinced #degenerates #fools #however

Prose talks and poetry sings. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#prose #sings #talks