Quotes · Skopia

59 quotes

1929

★ 0.9

We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it there out of the best materials.

Otto Neurath

1921

★ 1.7

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

1956

★ 1.7

Psychological literature

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Bruno Bettelheim

1987

★ 1.7

Essay · Scientific literature

The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

Max Perutz

1989

★ 1.7

Newspaper

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides!

Artur Schnabel

1958

★ 1.8

Lecture

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Friedrich Hayek

1973

★ 1.8

Political literature · Economic literature

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

Friedrich Hayek

The Road to Serfdom · 1944

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 1.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writing

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

United States v. Rabinowitz · 1950

★ 1.9

Political literature

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

Elias Canetti

1960

★ 1.9

Economic literature · Historical literature

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy · 1942

★ 1.9

Economic literature · Historical literature

Every piece of business strategy... Must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy · 1942

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

When we are no longer able to change a situation... We are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 1.9

Treatise · Economic literature

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

1950

★ 1.9

Treatise · Philosophical literature

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

1953

★ 1.9

Economic literature · Historical literature

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy · 1942

★ 2.0

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