“Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!” HeartMayHas BeensPastReadingHistoryFireInspirePoetHeroFlamesBiographiesBorrowed Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.” PeopleMayTruthAgeTodayPastYesterdayOld AgeFirmOld People Author:Franz Grillparzer
“The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.” MindMayConvictionInvisible Author:Franz Grillparzer
“A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.” MenLoveWellsMayCircumstancesMen And WomenConcernGenderWelcomeWell BeingBelovedGender RolesDiscreet Author:Franz Grillparzer
“What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.” WorldMayTodayMoneyPayCreditCharacteristicsMaterialismMonumentPensionToday's World Author: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.” WellsMayHandsCertainChristianityIslamGreekMelancholyApathyOptimistJudaismInstillHeathenVehemence Author:Franz Grillparzer
“A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.” HeartMayJoyCrowdsRejoiceDiscretionUnnoticedOverflowFestivitiesBoisterous Author:Franz Grillparzer
“They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.” NeedsMayLordGrievingNobilityDonateAustria Author:Franz Grillparzer
“If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.” IfsBelieveMayMissingDangerMastersConceptsErrorsProvenMistakenOften Is Author: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” ThinkingMayDiesCoursesGoldHungerImmortal Author:Franz Grillparzer
