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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality."
"The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?"
"The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts."
"Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years."
"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
"One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism."
"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
"Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened."
"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief ."
"The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist."
"The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."
"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."
"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."
"What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."
"I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't."
"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture."
"It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality."
"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted."
"Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction."
"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself."
"We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin."
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""
"I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments."
"Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."
"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."
"As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl."
"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be."
"I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization."
"In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties."
"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism."
"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
"Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product."
"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will."
"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
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