A.R. Von Quotes

The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it.

The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

YOU NEVER NEED TO APOLOGIZEFOR HOW YOU CHOSE TO SURVIVE

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher.

I’m starving to learn more about her. A new hunger that I know only she could satisfy.

I brought a knife to the gunfight. I am the knife. I am all blade.

the kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure.

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.

When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one.

Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn.

Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.

The Prussian monarchy is not a country which has an army, but an army which has a country in which – as it were – it is just stationed.

My lone desire stands, looking like beauty on a cloud, ripe for my picking, ready for me to ravish and pleasure. Waiting for me to tempt and tease. Satisfy and gratify.

For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect

Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872

There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind

The main thing is to make history, not to write it

Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.

Tears are pouring down my cheeks like tiny rivers, soaking my shirt with dark patches of my salty happiness.

One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.

I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.

Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.

You say to your soldier 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.

Art is difficult transient is her reward.

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? . . . Amazed!

God helps the brave.

I've learned only that you never say never.

Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.