The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream! — 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
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest… — 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
Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
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 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
