Franz Grillparzer

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. ”

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses. ”

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction. ”

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. ”

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”