Franz Grillparzer

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

— Franz Grillparzer

The real genres: good and bad.

— Franz Grillparzer

German diligence is actually endurance.

— Franz Grillparzer

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

— Franz Grillparzer

Freedom requires guns.

— Franz Grillparzer

Prose talks and poetry sings.

— Franz Grillparzer

A love that dies has never lived.

— Franz Grillparzer

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

— Franz Grillparzer

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

— Franz Grillparzer

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

— Franz Grillparzer

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

— Franz Grillparzer

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

— Franz Grillparzer

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

— Franz Grillparzer

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

— Franz Grillparzer

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

— Franz Grillparzer

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

— Franz Grillparzer

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest…

— Franz Grillparzer

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of…

— Franz Grillparzer

Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the…

— Franz Grillparzer

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

— Franz Grillparzer

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

— Franz Grillparzer

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

— Franz Grillparzer

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the…

— Franz Grillparzer

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

— Franz Grillparzer

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded…

— Franz Grillparzer

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the…

— Franz Grillparzer

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only…

— Franz Grillparzer

Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand…

— Franz Grillparzer

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is…

— Franz Grillparzer

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and…

— Franz Grillparzer

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly,…

— Franz Grillparzer

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier,…

— Franz Grillparzer

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock…

— Franz Grillparzer

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

— Franz Grillparzer

History is the zoology of the human race.

— Franz Grillparzer

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

— Franz Grillparzer

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

— Franz Grillparzer

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

— Franz Grillparzer

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

— Franz Grillparzer

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

— Franz Grillparzer