Quotes About Friedrich

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.

I went through the whole student revolution thing and the last thing you wanted was people to think you were Friedrich von Trapp.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the German ambassador to Washington before 1933, the only German diplomat to resign on the Nazi accession to power.

Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.

Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you, through the gray mist of philology, I am never far, my thoughts always circle around you.

Around the hero everything becomes a tragedy; around the demigod everything becomes a satyr-play; and around God everything becomes — what? perhaps a 'world'?

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

Dante, or the hyena that writes poetry in tombs.

Here the intellectual cynicism of the Jew almost counterbalances his social unpleasantness.

Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage—it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body. There

Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Presupposition, principles, and such like forms still adorn the entrance to philosophy with their cobwebs.

Now dare to be tragic, for you will be redeemed.' Friedrich Nietzsche                        Ah!

They had stumbled on what Friedrich Hayek called the catallaxy: the ever-expanding possibility generated by a growing division of labour.

Here commenced a scene of horrors," the dramatist Friedrich von Schiller later wrote, "for which history has no language, poetry no pencil.

Verstehe. Nach meiner Krankenschwester verging mir auch der Appetit.

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.