A.R. Von Quotes

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

The will of man is his happiness.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

I write only because I cannot stop.

The secret is to enjoy being you.

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.

The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

I'm into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I'll rip the camera out of my assistant's hands and he'll be shouting, But there's no film in the camera! and I think, Never mind! Let's go.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.