“Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.” Quote by Franz Grillparzer
“Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.” TryingCrimeSeedsBurying Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.” RealSelfLife IsDifficultPracticeKnowingTheoryOneselfReal LifeKnowing Oneself Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.” LifeInspirationalKnowledgeSeaMankindPositiveWindSailSailingVesselNauticalSailing And The SeaThoughts And ThinkingWind BlowingSailing And WindSailing And LoveNorth Wind Author:Augustus Hare
“The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!” WantCountryWallChineseSandConfinedCrumblingConfinementVienna Author:Franz Grillparzer
“In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.” NeedsPersonsBodyJobsSuccessSpiritOrderQualitySucceedProfessionFormerLatterOrder To SucceedBad Qualities Author:Franz Grillparzer
“What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.” MenSuccessHopeSleepCreaturesSensesPatheticAwakenedWeariness Author:Franz Grillparzer
“The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.” CausesMilitaryEmptyClergyWalletsAnnoyance Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.” EnergyConsequenceDisregardRuthlessness Author:Franz Grillparzer
“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.” HumansCharacterIndividualHuman BeingsEffectsHuman NatureDramaDegreesDisappearDramaticIndividualismDetrimental Author:Franz Grillparzer