Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Metaphysics is a science.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

I think, therefore I am.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer to that because it's the answer that precedes science.

The world is everything that is the case.

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

Truth is the summit of being.

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Nothingness is the basis of everything.

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.