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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels."
"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
"Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know."
"People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successfulconduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard ofliving and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenitieswhose enjoyment is called the "American way of life."
"Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own life, he realizes that many implements that were totally unknown in the days of his youth and many others which at that time could be enjoyed only by a small minority are now standard equipment of almost every household. He is fully confident that this trend will prevail also in the future. He simply calls it the American way of life and does not give serious thought to the question of what made this continuous improvement in the supply of material goods possible."
"When individuals are exchanging present goods against future goods they do not take account in their valuations of Variations in the objective exchange-value of money. Lenders and borrowers are not in the habit of allowing for possible future fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money."
"You have given me a gift such as I never even dreamt of finding in this life."
"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest."
"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."
"We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences."
"I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much."
"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."
"For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles."
"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."
"When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?"
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."
"An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself."
"We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter."
"Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him."
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
"Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared."
"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
"I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff."
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."
"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
"My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day."
"I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done."
"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."
"The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it."
"It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is."
"I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up."
"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
"Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking."
"There is no room at all for independent enterprise under any variety of State Socialism. Prices are to be regulated authoritatively; authority is to fix what is to be produced, and how, and in what quantities. There is to be no speculation, no 'excessive' profit, no loss. There is to be no innovation unless it be decreed by authority. The official is to direct and supervise everything."
"In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it."
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