top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Austrian Authors
"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."
"Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram."
"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?"
"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."
"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."
"Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House."
"I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done."
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."
"I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun."
"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."
"True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me."
"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
"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."
"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
"Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls."
"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."
"Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself."
"I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we."
"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment."
"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
"No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people."
"I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910."
"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."
"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."
bottom of page