A.R. Von Quotes
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.
Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.
Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them
You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.
It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.
There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.
Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.
Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.