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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'"
"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."
"The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity."
"We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."
"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world."
"I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films."
"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."
"If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer."
"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
"Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus."
"I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world."
"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."
"It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being."
"The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer."
"It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet."
"I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy."
"I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect."
"Under bilateral competition, market-price is determined within a range whose upper limit is set by the valuations of the lowest bidder among the actual buyers and the highest offerer among the excluded would-be sellers, and whose lower limit is set by the valuations of the lowest offerer among the actual sellers and the highest bidder among the excluded would-be buyers."
"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
"Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor."
"There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved."
"I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow."
"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
"It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities."
"No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own."
"As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either."
"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."
"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
"Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory."
"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."
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