Franz GrillparzerThe uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.373Truth
Franz GrillparzerDrink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.375Humor
Franz GrillparzerThe main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approva… ▶376Truth
Franz GrillparzerLet the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power. ✨ Sappho. Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 1 Scene 5, 1818… ▶333PhilosophyPolitics
Franz GrillparzerMozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger333DeathThought
Franz GrillparzerAt certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.322HopeTime
Franz GrillparzerI look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.368Politics
Franz GrillparzerI'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. ✨ On the Admissibility of Capital Punishment. Notebooks and Diar… ▶283HumanityPoliticsReading
Franz GrillparzerI love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else. ✨ Libussa. Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 2, 1848.273Love
Franz GrillparzerNo shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.262Humanity
Franz GrillparzerWhy do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is… ▶274ReadingReflection
Franz GrillparzerMankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.285Humanity
Franz GrillparzerScience and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursio… ▶329Life
Franz GrillparzerMoons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.242LifeTime
Franz GrillparzerThere shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.309Politics
Franz GrillparzerMy anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.245LoveThought
Franz GrillparzerThose who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.235Humanity
Franz GrillparzerThis searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.236Thought
Franz GrillparzerWhen mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. ✨ Libussa. Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 1, 1848.… ▶237Love
Franz GrillparzerAlthough your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.161Humanity
Franz GrillparzerYou even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.249Philosophy
Franz GrillparzerIf we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in dang… ▶173Death
Franz GrillparzerTo test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.162Humanity
Franz GrillparzerIt's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.174ThoughtTruth
Franz GrillparzerIf someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.176Thought
Franz GrillparzerGenius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.187Philosophy
Franz GrillparzerIdeas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.147Thought
Franz GrillparzerNo one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.159Truth
Franz GrillparzerPoetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.1410LifeReadingTruth
