A.R. Von Quotes

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.

Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

The FDA has formed a rapid response team.

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

War is merely a continuation of politics.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

Silence, nothing is better.

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

Sleep is easier to make up than a unique evening.

Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It

I adore dark chocolate.

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.

Nature is a source of strength.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.

One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.