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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself."
"The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside."
"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."
"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."
"Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery."
"It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them."
"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."
"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."
"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."
"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."
"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."
"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."
"I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old."
"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed."
"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."
"Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe."
"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
"I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person..."
"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure."
"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."
"The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love."
"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."
"It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way."
"In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate."
"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
"I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body."
"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."
"I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government."
"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."
"I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento."
"It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
"The first value of money was clearly the value which the goods used as money possessed (thanks to their suitability for satisfying human wants in other ways) at the moment when they were first used as common media of exchange."
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