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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again."
"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street."
"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony."
"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term."
"The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place."
"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
"You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language."
"We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium."
"We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean."
"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist."
"For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights."
"I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me."
"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults."
"All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature."
"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."
"The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude."
"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."
"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
"Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play."
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."
"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."
"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."
"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."
"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."
"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened."
"One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others."
"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher."
"Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth."
"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
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