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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
"Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy."
"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."
"I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life."
"Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view."
"It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones."
"The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions."
"Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself."
"The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection."
"A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!"
"A man might find for a moment that he was unable to work, but that's exactly the right time to remember his past accomplishments and to consider that later on, when the obstacles has been removed, he's bound to work all the harder and more efficiently."
"The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning."
"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."
"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note."
"When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same."
"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."
"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
"In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience."
"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
"The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind."
"Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy."
"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."
"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."
"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."
"The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre."
"Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression."
"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."
"Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right."
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers."
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