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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated."
"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former."
"By 'the objective exchange-value of money' we are accordingly to understand the possibility of obtaining a certain quantity of other economic goods in exchange for a given quantity of money, and by 'the price of money' this actual quantity of other goods."
"We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium."
"The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act."
"Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment."
"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
"I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow."
"Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality."
"The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude."
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
"A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak."
"We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany."
"The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena."
"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."
"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
"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."
"One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'"
"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
"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."
"The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity."
"Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard."
"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."
"I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty."
"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."
"Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram."
"Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner."
"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."
"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."
"A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view."
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