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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self."
"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."
"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
"I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree."
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."
"A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak."
"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue."
"It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City."
"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."
"I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go."
"It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus."
"Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet."
"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure."
"Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic."
"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."
"No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them."
"Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message."
"Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world."
"Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls."
"It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations-not in their personal conduct-a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal."
"Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people."
"Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar."
"Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it."
"Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot."
"The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act."
"I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments."
"Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?"
"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
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