Austrian - Poet | January 15, 1791 - January 21, 1872
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
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
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Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Prose talks and poetry sings.
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