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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space."
"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."
"No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes."
"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."
"It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person."
"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world."
"In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience."
"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."
"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed."
"It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion."
"The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind."
"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."
"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."
"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."
"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."
"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."
"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."
"We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."
"In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision."
"However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II."
"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."
"Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation."
"It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice."
"It is not in the power of governments to increase the supply of one commodity without a corresponding restriction in the supply of other commodities more urgently demanded by consumers. The authority may reduce the price of one commodity only by raising the prices of others."
"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."
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."
"Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view."
"The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings."
"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."
"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."
"Under bilateral competition, market-price is determined within a range whose upper limit is set by the valuations of the lowest bidder among the actual buyers and the highest offerer among the excluded would-be sellers, and whose lower limit is set by the valuations of the lowest offerer among the actual sellers and the highest bidder among the excluded would-be buyers."
"For a truly religious man nothing is tragic."
"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions."
"It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him."
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