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You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free—but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.
By Franz Grillparzer
Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you b...
By Franz Grillparzer
Whoever 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 b...
By Franz Grillparzer
Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.
By Franz Grillparzer
Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
By Franz Grillparzer
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simple and the natu...
By Franz Grillparzer
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
By Franz Grillparzer
Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity...
By Franz Grillparzer
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
By Franz Grillparzer
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
By Franz Grillparzer
The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man....
By Franz Grillparzer
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena exte...
By Franz Grillparzer
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
By Franz Grillparzer
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
By Franz Grillparzer
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could i...
By Franz Grillparzer
She sought her happiness exclusively in the happiness of others. Death gave her her own.
By Franz Grillparzer
Poetry, 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.
By Franz Grillparzer
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger.
By Franz Grillparzer
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
By Franz Grillparzer
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
By Franz Grillparzer
Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers pr...
By Franz Grillparzer
Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.
By Franz Grillparzer
Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
By Franz Grillparzer
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
By Franz Grillparzer
If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Cons...
By Franz Grillparzer
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
By Franz Grillparzer
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its co...
By Franz Grillparzer
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man rem...
By Franz Grillparzer