A.R. Von Quotes

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Look for the second right answer.

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.

Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.

The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true.

There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.

Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture!

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold, My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold.

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.

If I seem to you to change my state and alter my condition, I do not change my mind. I try always to be Hutten, never to desert myself, but to walk with equanimity through the unequal scenes of life.

Love must not entreat, ' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

It’s just so strange.You used to love me, and now you’re a strangerwho happens to know allof my secrets.

If you would create something, you must be something.

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

God goes with thoughtless people.

If there is no personal God, everything is permissablel, and if God exists, everthing is possible.

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

cuando se es joven hay que ser un cero a la izquierda, pues no existe nada más perjudicial que destacar pronto, prematuramente, en cualquier cosa.

Se aburren quienes se pasan la vida esperando que algo los estimule desde fuera...

This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

All this timeI drank you like the cure when maybeyou were the poison.

My battered heart will always be where the ocean meets the sand, I will break over and overEvery day. That is the best andworst part of me.

But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though it’s nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in.