A.R. Von Quotes

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

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.

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

The luxury of one's own opinion.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

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

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

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.