Quotes by austrian authors

Prose talks and poetry sings. Franz Grillparzer

Poetry Prose Talks Sings

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. Franz Grillparzer

Home Son Mother Shall Female Least Male Your Slave

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. Franz Grillparzer

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done. Franz Schubert

God Has-Been Composing Had Simply Like Am Been Done

The moment is supreme. Franz Schubert

Supreme Moment

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can. Franz Schubert

Try Imagination Decorate Much

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act. Franz Schubert

Unable Blamed Parts His Manager Which Act Who Players

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? Franz Schubert

The straight line is ungodly. Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Line Straight Straight Line

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. Friedensreich Hundertwasser

You Symptom Our Ruler Moral Carrying Pocket Civilisation New Forbidden Least Disease Just Disintegration Should Your Illiteracy Symbol Basis

The mind cannot foresee its own advance. Friedrich August von Hayek

Brainy Mind Own Advance Foresee Cannot

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. Friedrich August von Hayek

Understanding Whose Desires

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information. Friedrich August von Hayek

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium. Friedrich August von Hayek

Words Will Other Market Would About General Somewhat Prices Never Particular Know Call Equilibrium Wages Were Exist Conditions Itself Establish In Other Words Which Bring

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation. Friedrich August von Hayek

Great Character Will Values Determine General Fact Advantage Particular Equations Mathematical Where In Fact Regard Which Manifestation Pattern Us Means Ignorant Describe Even Technique Great Advantage Numerical

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. Friedrich August von Hayek

Best Problem Society Relative Resources Those Secure Members Rather Only Individuals Importance Know Known How Any Ends Use Whose

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things. Friedrich August von Hayek

Pride Cause Made Indeed Mess Little Moment Profession Things

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world. Friedrich August von Hayek

World Events Possible Admitted Facts Demand Occur Real Limits Causes Denied Quite The Real World Real World Which Hardly