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
iron climbing mind
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.
average two mind
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.
hands mind slavery
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
mind may invisible
The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
mind piety fermentation
Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
claimed difference mistake mistakes three
Every mistake has three stages: first, it is made, second, it is not admitted, and third, its claimed it didnt make any difference anyway.
converts half oh wisdom
Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
speed slow-down bits
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
grieving austria may
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.
world fossils bones
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
deception lost torture
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
dangerous-situations apathy temper
The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.
tasks metaphysics empiricism
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
learning self growing
The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.