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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"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."
"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice."
"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."
"It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way."
"The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that."
"The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act."
"One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now."
"Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment."
"If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life."
"What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me."
"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house."
"The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner."
"Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again."
"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?""
"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
"I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow."
"Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions."
"We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."
"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
"Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"
"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
"A man endures misfortune without complaint."
"The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man."
"A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living."
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."
"We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work."
"Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together."
"To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages."
"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."
"I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective."
"If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me."
"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.""
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