Franz Grillparzer

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. ”

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. ”

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. ”

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. ”

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. ”

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. ”

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. ”

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ”

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled. ”

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is. ”