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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy."
"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."
"I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life."
"Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us."
"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them."
"I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way."
"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
"The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions."
"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term."
"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."
"I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts."
"If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination."
"You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father."
"The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place."
"Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one."
"Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people."
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers."
"I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories."
"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest."
"The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be, and has often been in the course of history, the main source of mischief and disaster."
"Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot."
"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."
"I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe."
"The collapse of an inflation policy carried to its extreme -- as in the United States in 1781 and in France in 1796 -- does not destroy the monetary system, but only the credit money or fiat money of the State that has overestimated the effectiveness of its own policy. The collapse emancipates commerce from etatism and establishes metallic money again."
"The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that."
"On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room."
"The social displacements that occur as consequences of variations in the value of money result solely from the circumstance that this assumption never holds good. In the chapter dealing with the determinants of the objective exchange-value of money it was shown that variations in the value of money always start from a given point and gradually spread out from this point through the whole community."
"One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now."
"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."
"The mistake in the argument of those who suppose that a variation in the quantity of money results in an inversely proportionate variation in its purchasing power lies in its starting-point. If we wish to arrive at a correct conclusion, we must start with the valuations of separate individuals; we must examine the way in which an increase or decrease in the quantity of money affects the value-scales of individuals, for it is from these alone that variations in the exchange-ratios of goods proceed."
"I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me."
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