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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"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."
"Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost."
"The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness."
"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance."
"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
"In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology. We suppose that this confidence in magic is derived from the over-estimation of the individual's own intellectual operations, from the belief in the 'omnipotence of thoughts', which, incidentally, we come across again in our obsessional neurotics."
"He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants."
"What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me."
"For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights."
"I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone."
"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
"Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand."
"We cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men, since men always place their newly won powers at the service of their aggressiveness, and use them against one another."
"I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?"
"The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi."
"As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government."
"Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition."
"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."
"Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important."
"The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form."
"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."
"We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn."
"Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself."
"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."
"To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman."
"The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is."
"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."
"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance."
"The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences."
"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played."
"Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun."
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