The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turnedinto a church lady. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility. — Franz Grillparzer Character Copy Share Image
It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning. — Franz Grillparzer Chastity Copy Share Image
Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure,… — 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 Desire Copy Share Image
A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life. — Franz Grillparzer Children 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
“Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, Die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft. (Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.)” — Franz Grillparzer Grief Copy Share Image
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. — Franz Grillparzer 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
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me… — Franz Grillparzer Ancients Copy Share Image
What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good… — Franz Grillparzer Action Copy Share Image
In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several… — Franz Grillparzer Animal Copy Share Image
The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify… — Franz Grillparzer Aesthetics 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
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
Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame. — Franz Grillparzer Blind Copy Share Image
It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak. — Franz Grillparzer Cowardice Copy Share Image
The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream! — Franz Grillparzer Dream Copy Share Image
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time. — Franz Grillparzer 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
Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader?… — Franz Grillparzer Books Copy Share Image
Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning? — Franz Grillparzer Absurd Copy Share Image
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! — Franz Grillparzer Age Copy Share Image
In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's… — 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 Abundance 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
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
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
