Quotes by Austrian Authors - Page 2

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.
Viktor Frankl
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most I shot.
Ernst Haas
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
Felix Frankfurter
Perfection never exists in reality but only in our dreams.
Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
Wanting to change to improve a person's situation means offering him for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Everyone once once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.
Rainer Maria Rilke
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah that is where the art resides!
Artur Schnabel
I write as a sow piddles.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rests always sound well.
Arnold Schoenberg
The sonatas of Mozart are unique they are too easy for children and too difficult for artists.
Artur Schnabel
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
Sigmund Freud
Hindsight is always zo/20.
Billy Wilder
Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect endeavoring to ignore nothing if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.
Rudolph Steiner
He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.
Karl Kraus
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.
Sigmund Freud
Doubt breeds doubt.
Franz Grillparzer
To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.
Riane Eisler
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.
Viktor Frankl
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most I shot.
Ernst Haas
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
Felix Frankfurter
Perfection never exists in reality but only in our dreams.
Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
Wanting to change to improve a person's situation means offering him for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Everyone once once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.
Rainer Maria Rilke
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah that is where the art resides!
Artur Schnabel
I write as a sow piddles.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rests always sound well.
Arnold Schoenberg
The sonatas of Mozart are unique they are too easy for children and too difficult for artists.
Artur Schnabel
Only the thinking man lives his life the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women and even the most foolish women are wise about men.
Theodor Reik
In our civilization men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
Theodor Reik
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture the additional act.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.
Sigmund Freud
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist a wonderful living side by side can grow up if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Love makes of the wisest man a fool and of the most foolish woman a sage.
Moritz G. Saphir
Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
Sigmund Freud
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
Felix Frankfurter
To some lawyers all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled undisciplined feeling.
Felix Frankfurter
Our knowledge can only be finite while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.
Felix Frankfurter