A.R. Von Quotes

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.

Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.

I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

What's truly important--and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn--is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

The best form of defense is attack.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

Beware of a man of one book.

The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.

Better pointed bullets than pointed words.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

Fighter pilots rove in the area allotted to them in any way they like, and when they spot an enemy they attack and shoot them down.... Everything else is rubbish.

History is no criminal court

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

When France sneezes, all of Europe catches cold.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.