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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support."
"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism."
"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."
"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
"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."
"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
"In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties."
"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.'"
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
"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."
"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."
"Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product."
"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."
"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
"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."
"Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."
"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
"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."
"Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later."
"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
"If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization."
"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."
"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
"I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento."
"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
"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."
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
"Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House."
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