Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Simplicity is not so simple to attain.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

All the great things are simple.

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.