A.R. Von Quotes

First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Stability is not immobility.

When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

The good Shepherd dog knows his master almost better than himself and must wonder indeed at the lack of the reverse.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Control your fate or somebody else will

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Knowledge must become capability.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.