Austria–Hungary
Quotes & Thinkers from Austria–Hungary
9 thinkers171 quotesTop field: Literature
"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Literature
Symbolism
1875–1926
"Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."
61 quotes
Wilhelm Reich
Psychology
Freudo-Marxism
1897–1957
"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."
80 quotes
Ludwig Boltzmann
Mathematics
1844–1906
"Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world."
9 quotes
Italo Svevo
Literature
1861–1928
"A novelist who ranks with Proust, Kafka, Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism."
5 quotes
Tomáš Baťa
Business
1876–1932
"Financial recovery must be preceded by moral recovery."
6 quotes
Georg Trakl
Literature
Expressionism
1887–1914
"The black snow that runs from the rooftops;"
2 quotes
Meša Selimović
Literature
1910–1982
"He entered into life with a burden that most of us bear: with the example of great men before his eyes and the desire to follow in their footsteps, but without any knowledge of petty men, who are the only ones we meet."
2 quotes
Eduard Hanslick
Philosophy
1825–1904
"a language which we speak and understand but cannot translate"
5 quotes
Gavrilo Princip
Social Activism
1894–1918
"There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom."
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Notable Quotes
"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
— Rainer Maria Rilke, b. 1875View →
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
— Rainer Maria Rilke, b. 1875View →
"For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation."
— Rainer Maria Rilke, b. 1875View →
"That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."
— Rainer Maria Rilke, b. 1875View →
"Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."
— Rainer Maria Rilke, b. 1875View →