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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"A confession has to be part of your new life."
"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."
"We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany."
"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."
"I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here."
"In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary."
"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."
"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."
"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."
"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."
"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful."
"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."
"I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways."
"I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year."
"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."
"The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization."
"In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision."
"After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could."
"The marginal utility of money to any individual, i.e., the marginal utility derivable from the goods that can be obtained with the given quantity of money or that must be surrendered for the required money, presupposes a certain exchange-value of the money; so the latter cannot be derived from the former. 1 Those who have realized the significance of historically-transmitted values in the determination of the objective exchange-value of money will not find great difficulty in escaping from this apparently circular argument."
"I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world."
"In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression."
"If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive."
"The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs."
"Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man."
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
"The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels."
"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
"Etatism, as a theory, is the doctrine of the omnipotence of the State, and, as a policy, the attempt to regulate all mundane affairs by authoritative commandment and prohibition. The ideal society of etatism is a particular sort of socialistic community; it is usual in discussions involving this ideal society to speak of State Socialism, or, in some connexions, of Christian Socialism."
"I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk."
"When individuals are exchanging present goods against future goods they do not take account in their valuations of Variations in the objective exchange-value of money. Lenders and borrowers are not in the habit of allowing for possible future fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money."
"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."
"The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer."
"We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium."
"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau."
"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
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