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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."
"Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation."
"One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance."
"I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another."
"Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state."
"A confession has to be part of your new life."
"To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages."
"No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist."
"This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one."
"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
"You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands."
"Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety."
"The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it."
"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous."
"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
"We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it."
"I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty."
"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."
"I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation."
"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."
"When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future."
"Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order."
"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion."
"Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding."
"Don't aim at success-the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself."
"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle."
"The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance."
"Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore."
"The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back."
"I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups."
"This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects."
"The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place."
"No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people."
"Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave,'' he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional patterns or patterns adopted by other people because he is convinced that this procedure is best fitted to achieve his own welfare. And he is ready to change his ideology and consequently his mode of action whenever he becomes convinced that this would better serve his own interests."
"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice."
"The mistake in the argument of those who suppose that a variation in the quantity of money results in an inversely proportionate variation in its purchasing power lies in its starting-point. If we wish to arrive at a correct conclusion, we must start with the valuations of separate individuals; we must examine the way in which an increase or decrease in the quantity of money affects the value-scales of individuals, for it is from these alone that variations in the exchange-ratios of goods proceed."
"Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."
"Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass."
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