Austria

🇦🇹Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy

analytic philosophy

1845–1925

"What has to be accepted, the given, is — so one could say — forms of life."

🇦🇹Franz Kafka

Literature

Realism

1894–1924

"L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin."

🇦🇹Viktor Frankl

Psychology

1905–1997

"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. p. 32 in the 1992 edition, , Beacon Press"

🇦🇹Friedrich Hayek

Philosophy

1899–1992

"Hayek's influence on Friesian philosophy"

🇦🇹Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politics

b. 1947

"I love him and Maria does too, and so thank you, Kurt."

"On the South bank are found various buildings constructed by the nobles in memory of Ram, extending from East to West."

"Management has authority only as long as it performs."

🇦🇹Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Science

1901–1972

"Cybernetics, based upon the principle of feedback or circular causal trains providing mechanisms for goal-seeking and self-controlling behavior."

"You become an artist to upset your family."

🇦🇹Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Literature

1830–1916

"None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort."

🇦🇹Bertolt Brecht

Literature

1898–1956

"Brecht's works in English: A bibliography"

🇦🇹Fritjof Capra

Science

b. 1939

"One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks."

🇦🇹Ludwig von Mises

Literature

Liberalism

1881–1973

"The Life and Work of Ludwig von Mises" Jörg Guido Hülsmann"

🇦🇹Ernst Gombrich

1909–2001

"In my own field, the History of Art, it was Alois Riegl who, at the turn of the century, worked out his own translation of the Hegelian system into psychological terms."

🇦🇹Walter Slezak

Entertainment

1902–1983

"You have to work five or six years in the theatre—in hit shows—to make people sick and tired of you, but this you can accomplish in only a few weeks on television. It's a remarkable medium."

🇦🇹Joe Zawinul

Music

1932–2007

"I ain’t scared of Beethoven or nobody when it comes to composing."

🇦🇹Eric Kandel

Medicine

b. 1929

"Because we do not have a sensory organ dedicated to space, the representation of space is a quintessentially cognitive sensibility: it is the binding problem writ large."

🇦🇹John Quincy Adams

Politics

"Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!"

🇦🇹Wilhelm Stekel

Psychology

1868–1940

"Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise."

🇦🇹Peter L. Berger

Religion

1929–2017

"We have as many lives as we have points of view."

🇦🇹Elfriede Jelinek

Literature

b. 1946

"Nothing is natural, yet everything is as it is by nature."

🇦🇹Gottfried Helnwein

Art

b. 1948

"Helnwein is one of the few exciting painters we have today."

🇦🇹Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Art

modern art

1928–2000

"Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all."

🇦🇹Artur Schnabel

Philosophy

1882–1951

"Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes."

🇦🇹Kurt Schuschnigg

Politics

1897–1977

"Neither the free will of the people nor the right of self-determination nor even the consent of a majority of convinced National-Socialists can be cited as justification for the obliteration of Austria after 1938."

"The bond price, and, as an arithmetical and rigid consequence, the interest rate is an inherently restless variable."

"The power and force of stone reside in its mass, its weight, and its density."

🇦🇹Alfred Brendel

Music

1931–2025

"You need three or five hands to play Ligeti."

🇦🇹Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Literature

1892–1946

"The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act."

🇦🇹Erich Fried

Literature

1921–1988

"Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts."

🇦🇹Werner Herzog

Entertainment

New German Cinema

b. 1962

"Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue."

🇦🇹Paul Karl Feyerabend

Philosophy

1924–1994

"The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution."

"In order to understand what the world would become, we must first know what it was."

🇦🇹Viktor Schauberger

Science

1885–1958

"Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space of the human being."

🇦🇹Johannes Grenzfurthner

Entertainment

b. 1975

"Strange to see radical anti-Semites using Facebook. I'd like to call that Zuckerberg's Paradox."

🇦🇹Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Economics

1909–1999

"For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution."

🇦🇹Richard von Mises

Mathematics

1883–1953

"The theory of probability can never lead to a definite statement concerning a single event."

"Hitler explained quietly that he wanted these things done. It is of interest that no one objected or talked back. It was law and it was genius speaking."

🇦🇹Robert Musil

Philosophy

1880–1942

"Ted Gioia, "A Fresh Look at The Man Without Qualities," Great Books Guide"

🇦🇹Otto Neurath

Philosophy

1882–1945

"At first the Vienna Circle analysed ‘physics’ in a narrower sense almost exclusively; now psychology, biology,sociology. The task of this movement is unified science and nothing less."