Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

It'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.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

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

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

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.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

Science 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 excursion is the process.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

The 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 Grillparzer Quote

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

Those 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.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

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 been dismantled.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
- Franz Grillparzer Quote