Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

— Franz Grillparzer

Franz Grillparzer Quotes

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

— Franz Grillparzer

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

— Franz Grillparzer

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

— 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 produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one’s companion.

— Franz Grillparzer

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world’s glory? A dream!

— Franz Grillparzer

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

— Franz Grillparzer

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

— Franz Grillparzer

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

— Franz Grillparzer

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

— Franz Grillparzer

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.

— Franz Grillparzer

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

— Franz Grillparzer

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

— Franz Grillparzer

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind’s foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man’s master is the – public.

— Franz Grillparzer

What’s the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

— Franz Grillparzer

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

— Franz Grillparzer

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

— Franz Grillparzer

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

— Franz Grillparzer

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

— Franz Grillparzer

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

— Franz Grillparzer

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

— Franz Grillparzer
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