Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzerwas an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 January 1791
CountryAustria
iron climbing mind
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.
thinking animal intelligence
If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
hands greek islam
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.
hypocrisy hens meat
What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.
common-sense natural wit
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.
love eagles sight
How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
nature science hermeneutics
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
love death dying
A love that dies has never lived.
lying reality firsts
Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.
country uprising resistance
An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
love men may
A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.
change book long
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! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
love wise women
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
experience transcendence
Transcendence: that which transcends experience.