A.R. Von Quotes

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Let there be truth between us.

Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Power is neither male nor female.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.

Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

I'm a stickler about never going to bed with makeup on. Like, all I can hear is my pores screaming, "Nooooooo!" So I'm a saint when it comes to cleansing.

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

Political correctness kills discussion.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

I’m having a vacation and it’s so beautiful and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

The market and its inescapable law are supreme.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.