Franz Grillparzer Quotes
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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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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.
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You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.
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Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.
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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.
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Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.
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Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.
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Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.
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Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.
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I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.
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To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.
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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.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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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