A.R. Von Quotes
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.
Those who satisfy the wants of a smaller number of people only collect fewer votes-dollars-than those who satisfy the wants of more people.
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.
There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.
My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
Not until we have taken a look into the future shall we be strong and bold enough to investigate our paste honestly and impartially
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
