Franz Grillparzer Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Hypocrisy, Hens, Meat

• Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Beauty, Beautiful, Uplifting

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

  Franz Grillparzer

  Climbing, Iron, Mind

• 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.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Running, Accomplishment, Priorities

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