When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
Franz GrillparzerAn uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
Franz GrillparzerThe first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.
Franz GrillparzerAs youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Franz Grillparzer