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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted."
"In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression."
"You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks."
"Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made."
"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 man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."
"I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness."
"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."
"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house."
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."
"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."
"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."
"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."
"All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish."
"When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold."
"On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego."
"If all the exchange-ratios of the past were erased from human memory, the process of market-price-determination might certainly become more difficult, because everybody would have to construct a new scale of valuations for himself; but it would not become impossible. In fact, people the whole world over are engaged daily and hourly in the operation from which all prices result: the decision as to the relative significance enjoyed by specific quantities of goods as conditions for the satisfaction of wants."
"It is not in the power of governments to increase the supply of one commodity without a corresponding restriction in the supply of other commodities more urgently demanded by consumers. The authority may reduce the price of one commodity only by raising the prices of others."
"The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the FA1?4hrer principle."
"Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life."
"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
"The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back."
"Economic history shows us a continual increase in the demand for money. The characteristic feature of the development of the demand for money is its intensification; the growth of division of labour and consequently of exchange transactions, which have constantly become more and more indirect and dependent on the use of money, have helped to bring this about, as well as the increase of population and prosperity."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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