A.R. Von Quotes

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

Politics ruins the character.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

All things are only transitory.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

In the beginning was rhythm.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.

Only the heart without a stain knows ease.

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.

Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.