Franz Grillparzer Mind Quotations

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.