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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"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."
"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."
"Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product."
"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?"
"I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me."
"If the possessor of a units of money receives h additional units, then it is not at all true to say that he will value the total stock a + h exactly as highly as he had previously valued the stock a alone. Because he now has disposal over a larger stock, he will now value each unit less than he did before; but how much less will depend upon a whole series of individual circumstances, upon subjective valuations that will be different for each individual."
"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
"And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and finally, instead of following the hero onto the cliffs of suicide, joyfully turns back to that summer, content to stay there forever."
"The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside."
"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."
"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."
"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."
"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."
"I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government."
"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."
"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."
"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."
"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."
"I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure."
"I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine."
"When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold."
"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."
"The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition."
"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."
"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
"My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write."
"My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space."
"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."
"For when the Law of Price declares that a good actually commands a particular price, and explains why it does so, it of course implies that the good is able to command this price, and explains why it is able to do so. The Law of Price comprehends the Law of Exchange-Value."
"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
"You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect."
"There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved."
"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."
"In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary."
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