Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning. — Franz Grillparzer Chastity Copy Share Image
Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened. — Franz Grillparzer Brave Copy Share Image
Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty. — Franz Grillparzer Coercion Copy Share Image
How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible. — Franz Grillparzer Hermeneutics Copy Share Image
If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think. — Franz Grillparzer Ability Copy Share Image
In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The… — Franz Grillparzer Bad qualities Copy Share Image
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women,… — Franz Grillparzer Children Copy Share Image
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The… — Franz Grillparzer Art Copy Share Image
Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect.… — Franz Grillparzer Character Copy Share Image
Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity,… — Franz Grillparzer Complexes Copy Share Image
Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that… — Franz Grillparzer Beautiful Copy Share Image
It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all. — Franz Grillparzer Emotion Copy Share Image
The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality. — Franz Grillparzer Bestiality Copy Share Image
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. — Franz Grillparzer Applause Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures. — Franz Grillparzer Children Copy Share Image
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not… — Franz Grillparzer Action Copy Share Image
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. — Franz Grillparzer Boundaries Copy Share Image
From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers. — Franz Grillparzer Cities Copy Share Image
You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. — Franz Grillparzer Female Copy Share Image
