A.R. Von Quotes

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

Politics is not a science...but an art.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

You can do anything with children if you only play with them.

Error has never approached my spirit.

We must be young to do great things.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

Everyday, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals, but helps the environment.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

Strategy is a system of expedients.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.