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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was."
"The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary."
"I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding."
"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief ."
"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
"A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets."
"The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts."
"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."
"If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers."
"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."
"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."
"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?"
"Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened."
"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."
"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."
"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
"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."
"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."
"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
"Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years."
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."
"As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl."
"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important."
"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."
"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
"The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
"It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
"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."
"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?""
"We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin."
"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted."
"It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
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