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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets."
"Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side."
"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."
"I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding."
"The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts."
"The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it."
"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."
"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."
"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."
"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."
"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
"Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened."
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
"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."
"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."
"Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years."
"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be."
"A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement."
"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
"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."
"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."
"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."
"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
"Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later."
"It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
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