Quote

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

Franz Grillparzer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Country
Animal
Ass
Make
Wrong
Stupidity
Think
Three
Several
Thinking
Certain
Countries
People
Seems
Intelligent
Together
However
Asses
Persons
Completely
Terrifying
Person
Seem
Quantity

More quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Image
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
The real genres: good and bad.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
Franz Grillparzer
Image
As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
Franz Grillparzer
Image
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
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.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
Franz Grillparzer