Top 28 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

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.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

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.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

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.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

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