“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
“What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.” MoralityTeethMeatHypocrisyPiousCondemningHensClamor Author:Franz Grillparzer
“It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.” MatterDesireDutyCoercion Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.” HorseBraveSoldierFrightened Author:Franz Grillparzer
“I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.” KnowsHas BeensLostLosesKnow HowDeceptionTortureFalsehoodI Have LearnedDeceivedSelf DeceptionResignationIngratitude 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
“Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.” DoeOpinionOriginalsOriginalityUpside DownPopular Opinion Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.” WellsMayHandsCertainChristianityIslamGreekMelancholyApathyOptimistJudaismInstillHeathenVehemence Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.” TurnsNaturalCommonWitCommon SenseAccommodateDullnessProfundity Author:Franz Grillparzer