He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

- Franz Grillparzer

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

- Franz Grillparzer

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

- Franz Grillparzer

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

- Franz Grillparzer

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

- Franz Grillparzer

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

- Franz Grillparzer

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

- Franz Grillparzer

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

- Franz Grillparzer

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

- Franz Grillparzer