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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."
"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 unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."
"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."
"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played."
"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."
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
"If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization."
"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space."
"When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love."
"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true."
"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful."
"No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them."
"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."
"The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support."
"The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model."
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
"A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'"
"The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions."
"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."
"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
"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."
"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
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