Franz Grillparzer Quotes

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

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

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

He is like all the rest: a slave to profit, a master only to his bent for negotiating the best deal.

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

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.

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

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.