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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"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."
"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."
"Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years."
"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."
"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
"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."
"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself."
"It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely."
"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?"
"Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram."
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
"Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art."
"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."
"Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe."
"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
"I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we."
"You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language."
"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."
"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me."
"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
"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."
"The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic."
"The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing soundeconomic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit ofthis task the economist incurs the deadly enmity of all mountebanks and charlatanswhose shortcuts to an earthly paradise he debunks. The less these quacks are able toadvance plausible objections to an economist's argument, the more furiously do theyinsult them."
"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."
"No individual and no nation need fear at any time to have less money than it needs. Government measures designed to regulate the international movement of money in order to ensure that the community shall have the amount it needs, are just as unnecessary and inappropriate as, say, intervention to ensure a sufficiency or corn or iron or the like. This argument dealt the Mercantilist Theory its death-blow."
"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
"As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production."
"The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside."
"If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth."
"The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin."
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