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“Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.”

“When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.”

Franz Grillparzer Libussa

Libussa, act 1 (1848).

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

Franz Grillparzer Libussa

Libussa, act 2 (1848).

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

Franz Grillparzer

On the Admissibility of Capital Punishment, from Notebooks and Diaries (1836).

“Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.”

Franz Grillparzer

Sappho, act 1, sc. 5 (1818).

“Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?”

Franz Grillparzer

Notebooks and Diaries (1820).

“The irreligious are more religious than they themselves know, and the religious are less so than they think.”

Franz Grillparzer

Die Irreligiösen sind religiöser als sie selbst wissen, und die Religiösen sind's weniger, als sie meinen.
Aphorism (1857), in Studien zur Philosophie und Religion. Historische und politische Studien. Hamburg: Tredition, 2011, p. 32. ISBN 978-3-8424-1558-4.

“Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.”

Franz Grillparzer

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

Franz Grillparzer