A.R. Von Quotes

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

I am the best film director in the world.

To a valet no man is a hero.

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

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Calvin was virtually the founder of America.

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

The best strategy is always to be very strong.

All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

I rather liked Stalin and Molotov, got along fine with them.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.

Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Be the Woman You Want to Be.

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.

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

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

The aim of living is life itself.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it