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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?"
"I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree."
"Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together."
"Local differences in the prices of commodities whose natures are technologically identical are to be explained on the one hand by differences in the cost of preparing them for consumption (expenses of transport, cost of retailing etc.) and on the other hand by the physical and legal obstacles that restrict the mobility of commodities and human beings."
"If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me."
"Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid."
"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
"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."
"The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex."
"When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear."
"I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me."
"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."
"The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless."
"I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff."
"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
"When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future."
"When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'"
"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."
"I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year."
"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
"The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well."
"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."
"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."
"Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you."
"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."
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