Franz Grillparzer

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (January 15, 1791 – January 21, 1872) was an Austrian dramatic poet.

Quotes

• Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
  • Sappho, act 1, sc. 5 (1818).

• Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
  • Notebooks and Diaries (1820).

• I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.
  • On the Admissibility of Capital Punishment, from Notebooks and Diaries (1836).

• When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
  • Libussa, act 1 (1848).

• I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
  • Libussa, act 2 (1848).

• Die Irreligiösen sind religiöser als sie selbst wissen, und die Religiösen sind's weniger, als sie meinen.
  • Translation: The irreligious are more religious than they themselves know, and the religious are less so than they think.
  • Aphorism (1857), in Studien zur Philosophie und Religion. Historische und politische Studien. Hamburg: Tredition, 2011, p. 32. ISBN 978-3-8424-1558-4.

External links

• Works by Franz Grillparzer at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Grillparzer from the eLibrary Austria Project (elib Austria full txts)
• Literary Encyclopedia: Grillparzer, Franz
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Franz Grillparzer
• Grillparzer-Lebenslauf (in German)