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Famous Franz Grillparzer Quotes
“The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.”
“Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.”
“Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.”
“The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.”
“In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.”
“Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.”
“Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.”
“Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.”
“Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.”
“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.”
“If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.”