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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge."
"Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom."
"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"
"The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years."
"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
"Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully."
"The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based."
"Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat."
"For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know."
"The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic."
"Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard."
"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
"Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees."
"I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness."
"An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others."
"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."
"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child."
"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."
"You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position."
"But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it."
"Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness."
"But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home."
"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."
"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."
"Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing."
"And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry."
"I know nothing about sex, because I was always married."
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