Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Freedom requires guns.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

A love that dies has never lived.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.