Franz Grillparzer Quotes
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
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.
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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.
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
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.
Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
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.
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.
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.
I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
