Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never… — 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
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other… — 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
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turnedinto a church lady. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
