Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzerwas an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 January 1791
CountryAustria
race history zoology
History is the zoology of the human race.
truth past yesterday
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
inspirational music people
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
beauty assessment appreciate
What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.
thanksgiving being-thankful important
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
judging needs silent
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
individual educated phenomenon
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
believe often-is errors
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.
progress forests mankind
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.
people causes caricatures
No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
character thinking dare
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.
past adults youth
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
food prose-and-poetry different
Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.
life self views
Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.