Quotes by Austrian/Austria authors (page 8)

"A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

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Quotes by Austrian authors