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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"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."
"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true."
"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion."
"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful."
"There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again."
"Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic."
"Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies."
"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
"There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits."
"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."
"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again."
"If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth."
"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."
"The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin."
"Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."
"If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization."
"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."
"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
"The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative."
"I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways."
"A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth."
"The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization."
"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."
"No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them."
"If we disregard the exchange of present goods for future goods, and restrict our considerations for the time being to those cases in which the only exchanges are those between present goods and present money, we shall at once observe a fundamental difference between the effects of an isolated variation in a single commodity-price, emanating solely from the commodity side, and the effects of a variation in the exchange-ratio between money and other economic goods in general, emanating from the monetary side."
"All my six husbands married me for different reasons."
"True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me."
"I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort."
"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."
"Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so."
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