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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"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."
"It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love."
"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
"A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view."
"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance."
"We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences."
"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."
"Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power."
"You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language."
"The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner."
"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."
"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
"As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man."
"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."
"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
"Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery."
"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."
"Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species."
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
"The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses."
"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
"Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head."
"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."
"Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema ."
"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."
"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."
"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."
"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."
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