A.R. Von Quotes
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.
You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.
Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.
The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
