Quotes by austrian authors

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. Henry Grunwald

Perspective Reputation Society Defense Libel Resort Weapons Cases Civilized Civilized Society Look Most Least Replaced After Them Actions Ornament

Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith. Henry Grunwald

God Faith Myself Made Sense Universe Rationally Could No Sense Argue Argued Simply Knew Also Without Same Convinced Believing

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. Karl Kraus

Stupidity Earthquake Force Match Which Elemental

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. Karl Kraus

You Solitude People Would Would-Be Could Pick Ideal Avoid

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. Karl Kraus

Trouble Fire Shells Germans Quotations Them Kant

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. Karl Kraus

Better Does Than Mean Means Express

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality. Karl Popper

Reality Speak Statement Must About Scientific Does Far Speaks

We do not take humor seriously enough. Konrad Lorenz

Seriously Humor Enough Take

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Will Nothing About Something Could Well Said Just Which Serve

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Care Logic See Takes Look Does How Itself

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. Ludwig von Mises

Finance War Business Revolution Considered Bad Economically Always

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Beauty Visible Delights Invisible Us

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Good World Evil Would Would-Be Could Never Name Done Little

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Impossible Content Little Much Hard

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Those Only Understand Very Explained Little Who

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. Paul Watzlawick

Secret Propaganda Totally Lay He Ideas Him Without Person Being Hold Wants The Secret Of Noticing Even Whom Saturate Saturated

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization. Peter L. Berger

Culture Emergence Global Also Globalization Cultural Phenomenon

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. Peter L. Berger

Become Jobs Case Only Steel Disappear Obsolete Economy Also Obviously Terrible Industry Cultures Branches Which Social Certain Hardship

Life is to blame for everything. Robert Musil

Life Blame Everything

Descriptions of inner, spiritual processes are much more liable to misunderstanding than descriptions of events in the physical world. Such misunderstandings arise easily because the life of the soul is in constant movement and because we fail to bear in mind that the life of the soul is very different from life in the physical world. Rudolf Steiner

Life Spiritual Soul World Events Mind Liable Easily Constant Physical More Physical World Bear Arise Fail Because Misunderstanding Misunderstandings Very Than Movement Different Processes Much Descriptions Inner