“Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.” MenHumansRememberYoungDesireHuman LifeYoung ManGatesOld ManRemembrance Author:Franz Grillparzer
“What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.” IfsHumansReasonUseActionHuman BeingsBeautyTeachProduceTasteAppreciateMathematicsProofRationalAestheticsCalculationsAssessmentGood Taste Author:Franz Grillparzer
“History is the zoology of the human race.” HumansRaceHistoryHuman RaceHumankindZoology Author:Franz Grillparzer
“How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.” LifeHumansArtForeverExcellenceHeightAccomplishmentAbundanceFrightening Author:Franz Grillparzer
“How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.” HumansSeemsHumanityGoalProgressPoint Of ViewContemplatingInsignificantHuman Progress Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.” IfsFirstsHumansPersonsDoeSeemsMightRunningPurposeExistenceWatchesMoralityFunctionPrioritiesObjectivesClockAccomplishmentBeing The BestHuman ExistenceGreatest Accomplishment Author:Franz Grillparzer
“If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.” IfsThinkingHumansMatterRememberHuman BeingsAbilityAnimalMankindIntelligenceImmortal Author:Franz Grillparzer
“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.” HumansCharacterIndividualHuman BeingsEffectsHuman NatureDramaDegreesDisappearDramaticIndividualismDetrimental Author:Franz Grillparzer
“You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?” HumansDoeMatterDifferencesHuman BeingsJudgingComplainingPowerlessnessDoes It MatterMake The Best Of It Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.” WantInspirationalHumansFunnyCoursesOceanStormSailSailingHuman Knowledge Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.” NeedsHumansHuman BeingsAnimalFoolNotionConvictionConvincedTranscendentalDegenerates Author:Franz Grillparzer
