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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."
"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."
"I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion."
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
"I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."
"It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance."
"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
"Where the currency depreciation is a result of government inflation carried out by the issue of notes, it is possible to avert its disastrous effect on economic calculation by conducting all bookkeeping in a stable money instead. But so far as the depreciation is a depreciation of gold, the world money, there is no such easy way out."
"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."
"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."
"I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body."
"When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love."
"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."
"I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town."
"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."
"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."
"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."
"War is organized murder and torture against our brothers."
"Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product."
"My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space."
"If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty."
"Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man."
"It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules of experience and with due regard to reality, that he should entrust precisely what affects him most nearly to the care of an authority which claims as its prerogative freedom from all the rules of rational thought."
"What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness."
"You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father."
"I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories."
"One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory."
"The social displacements that occur as consequences of variations in the value of money result solely from the circumstance that this assumption never holds good. In the chapter dealing with the determinants of the objective exchange-value of money it was shown that variations in the value of money always start from a given point and gradually spread out from this point through the whole community."
"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."
"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
"Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality."
"A man endures misfortune without complaint."
"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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