Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Austrian Authors - Page 4

Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

I was never so directly inspired by fashion. It always came from somewhere else.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

I'm not a big fan of the Olympic Games. The ATP calendar is a bit complex due to the Olympic event.

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

The straight line is ungodly.

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

I never leave the house without putting on my lipstick.

My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.

Kagoshima is the first step in our plan to develop increased scheduled air links between Hong Kong and Japan, especially the southern islands of Kyushu and Okinawa.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

People always think that the worst time of my life must have been after the German Grand Prix crash in 1976, which put me in a coma and left me with severe burns. But it wasn't.

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.

We will have a lot of video sessions and it will get mind-blowing for the guys. The training sessions are forcing you to be really concentrated and therefore I want them to discuss it, for them to come to me. It is all about input, it's about mindset.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

I always knew about the risks I was taking. Every year, someone you knew was killed racing. You had to ask yourself, do you enjoy driving these cars so much that you're prepared to take that risk?

In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.

Being LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender) in Russia is anything but fun.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

It is my assignment to change this country.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.