A.R. Von Quotes

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

The nation that has the schools has the future.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

In war, only the simple succeeds.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.

Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one's neighbor and to recognize one's neighbor in the Lord.

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.