A.R. Von Quotes

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.

A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Both force and money are impotent against ideas.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.