Franz Grillparzer
This 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.
Franz GrillparzerAlthough your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Franz GrillparzerThe uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
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 approval.
Franz GrillparzerI look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Franz GrillparzerThe ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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 danger of missing his entire concept.
Franz GrillparzerDrink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Franz GrillparzerIf someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
Franz GrillparzerTo test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Franz GrillparzerWhoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.
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.
Franz GrillparzerTo declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
Franz GrillparzerIdeas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Franz GrillparzerWhen the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
Franz Grillparzer
