A.R. Von Quotes

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Insecurity is a waste of time.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. [Ger., Aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt, der bildet die Welt sich.]

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

To be conscious of one's weakness and to trust in God's help is the way to authentic strength and victory.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

Every generation is equidistant from God.

Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.

Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.