A.R. Von Quotes

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.

The threshold is the place of expectation.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!!

Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Feminism without femininity is a sham.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

The secret to a great marriage is having a great husband.

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Deep learning doesn't shine.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps.

To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.

A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

The English think soap is civilization.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority