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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"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."
"My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day."
"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."
"We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past."
"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life."
"War is organized murder and torture against our brothers."
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."
"It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes."
"Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message."
"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."
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
"The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs."
"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."
"It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules of experience and with due regard to reality, that he should entrust precisely what affects him most nearly to the care of an authority which claims as its prerogative freedom from all the rules of rational thought."
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
"I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion."
"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."
"I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers."
"A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage."
"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."
"One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory."
"Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self."
"I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness."
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
"The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on."
"The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian--an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own .... The lesbian body is a particularly pernicious and depraved version of the female body in general; it is susceptible to auto-eroticism, clitoral pleasure and self-actualization."
"In the case of money, subjective use-value and subjective exchange-value coincide. Both are derived from objective exchange-value, for money has no utility other than that arising from the possibility of obtaining other economic goods in exchange for it."
"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
"One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance."
"For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights."
"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note."
"Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state."
"Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions."
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
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