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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"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."
"As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl."
"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
"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."
"It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."
"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."
"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."
"The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin."
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
"The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted."
"When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold."
"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?"
"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."
"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."
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
"I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we."
"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
"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."
"The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea."
"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."
"The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them."
"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."
"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."
"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted."
"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again."
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