A.R. Von Quotes

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.

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

One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

Italy will always have the best food.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

We see only what we know.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.