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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"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."
"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."
"For the etatist, money is a creature of the State, and the esteem in which money is held is the economic expression of the respect or prestige enjoyed by the State. The more powerful and the richer the State, the better its money. Thus, during the War, it was asserted that 'the monetary standard of the victors' would ultimately be the best money. Yet victory and defeat on the battlefield can exercise only an indirect influence on the value of money."
"Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation."
"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
"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."
“Within a world of free trade and democracy, there are no incentives for war and conquest. In such a world, it is of no concern whether a nation's sovereignty stretches over a larger or smaller territory. Its citizens cannot derive any advantage from the annexation of a province. If territorial problems can be treated without bias and passion, it is not painful to be fair to other people's claims for self-determination.”
"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility."
"I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."
"One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory."
"Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self."
"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
"By 'the objective exchange-value of money' we are accordingly to understand the possibility of obtaining a certain quantity of other economic goods in exchange for a given quantity of money, and by 'the price of money' this actual quantity of other goods."
"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."
"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
"One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'"
"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
"The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity."
"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion."
"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture."
"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
"We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."
"Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes."
"All my six husbands married me for different reasons."
"I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble that I could lie forever on the sofa and keep opening and closing my eyes without knowing the difference."
"But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?"
"Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business."
"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."
"Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls."
"You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father."
"Nevertheless statesmen are still greatly exercised by the problem of the international distribution of money. For hundreds of years, the Midas Theory, systematized by Mercantilism, has been the rule followed by governments in taking measures of commercial policy. In spite of Hume, Smith, and Ricardo, it still dominates men's minds more than would be expected. Phoenix-like, it rises again and again from its own ashes."
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