Franz Grillparzer Men Quotations

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

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

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

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.

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.