Austrian Quotes

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Conquer, but don't triumph.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

I'm now a member of a pretty small club.