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346 Austrian Quotes

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

About Course Grown Know
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
Breath Different Sing Truly
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Blooming Colors Everything Heart
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Blame Call Creator Daily
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Consists Each Greet Love
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Attack Get Like Love
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Art Artist Been Danger
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Before Future Happens Itself
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Difficult Good More Must
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Been Conversation Had Last
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Been Full Never New
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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Cultures Determined Did Evolution
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The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

Bond Dog Earth Ever
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Before Breakfast Day Discard
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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Best Better Defined Hypothesis
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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

Aggressive Believe Civilized Day
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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

Adaptive Condemned Correspond Harmless
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Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

Definition Evil Good Perceive
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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

Because Better Dangerous Dispense
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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

About Compete Every Every Man
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I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

Ape Between Civilized Found
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Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Barking Bite Dogs Ever
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We do not take humor seriously enough.

Enough Humor Seriously Take
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'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Answer Billionaire Brains Brainy
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I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

Childhood Consider Development Early
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I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.

Animals Garden Grew House
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From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.

Became Behaviour Child Even
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When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

About Book Discovered Evolution
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In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Adapting Circumstances Constantly Course
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Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to a minimum.

Animals Body Fast Found
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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.

Adaptation Assume Behaviour Caused
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Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.

Accused Analogy Animal Behaviour
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There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.
Aggression Antiquity Bred Evolutionary
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I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
Gratitude Owe Parents Patient
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The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.
Children City Family Flat
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Emergencies Always Pretext Safeguards
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I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Think History Exaggeration Largely
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We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish .

Shall Wiser Learn Foolish
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
Mind Advance Foresee Own
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Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Freedom Granted Beforehand Effect
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If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

Wish Preserve Society Essential
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We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Face Preservation Individual Freedom
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Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

Intellect Desire Outstripped Understanding
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We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

Indeed Moment Little Pride
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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.

Hardly Denied Demand Arbitrarily
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This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Means Entrust Deliberate According
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The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

Expectation Natural-science Times Exceeded
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Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.
Loves Music Never Unhappy
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No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

One Understand Grief Joy
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My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.

Composition Spring Sorrow Give
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