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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."
"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 tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture."
"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
"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."
"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.'"
"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."
"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."
"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
"All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish."
"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."
"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
"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."
"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."
"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility."
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."
"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."
"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
"The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea."
"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
"A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement."
"Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again."
"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
"It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces."
"I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body."
"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."
"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
"I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento."
"Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one."
"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."
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