War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means go...
LUDWIG VON MISES At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
LUDWIG VON MISES The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken
LUDWIG VON MISES There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the gr...
LUDWIG VON MISES Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The...
LUDWIG VON MISES The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
LUDWIG VON MISES Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthl...
LUDWIG VON MISES ...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims...
LUDWIG VON MISES One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable a...
LUDWIG VON MISES Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and act...
LUDWIG VON MISES What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy,...
LUDWIG VON MISES The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principl...
LUDWIG VON MISES Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life...
LUDWIG VON MISES The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and pet...
LUDWIG VON MISES People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. T...
LUDWIG VON MISES The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
LUDWIG VON MISES The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intens...
LUDWIG VON MISES Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working...
LUDWIG VON MISES Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
LUDWIG VON MISES Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuse...
LUDWIG VON MISES The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imita...
LUDWIG VON MISES As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed a...
LUDWIG VON MISES It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the ...
LUDWIG VON MISES All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implic...
LUDWIG VON MISES It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hang...
LUDWIG VON MISES Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.
LUDWIG VON MISES A nation's policy form an integral whole. Foreign policy and domestic policy are closely linked tog...
LUDWIG VON MISES The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state c...
LUDWIG VON MISES The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governor...
LUDWIG VON MISES If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with ci...
LUDWIG VON MISES The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the...
LUDWIG VON MISES It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the t...
LUDWIG VON MISES Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universi...
LUDWIG VON MISES He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues m...
LUDWIG VON MISES Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction ...
LUDWIG VON MISES Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only mea...
LUDWIG VON MISES Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist ...
LUDWIG VON MISES It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations f...
LUDWIG VON MISES In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISES Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the wea...
LUDWIG VON MISES If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the ...
LUDWIG VON MISES Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons ...
LUDWIG VON MISES The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
LUDWIG VON MISES A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
LUDWIG VON MISES Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of l...
LUDWIG VON MISES To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideol...
LUDWIG VON MISES Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the sam...
LUDWIG VON MISES Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
LUDWIG VON MISES The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
LUDWIG VON MISES The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaste...
LUDWIG VON MISES Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
LUDWIG VON MISES If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
LUDWIG VON MISES Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
LUDWIG VON MISES War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
LUDWIG VON MISES “A nation is the more prosperous today the less it has tried to put obstacles in the way of the sp...
LUDWIG VON MISES Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer
LUDWIG VON MISES In periods of slow alterations in the relation between the supply of and the demand for money they d...
LUDWIG VON MISES Edgeworth has been the foremost economist in England during the latter part of the 19th century and ...
LUDWIG VON MISES War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does...
LUDWIG VON MISES Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius c...
LUDWIG VON MISES When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the me...
LUDWIG VON MISES The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
LUDWIG VON MISES Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
LUDWIG VON MISES Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who a...
LUDWIG VON MISES Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore in...
LUDWIG VON MISES The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception o...
LUDWIG VON MISES Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it c...
LUDWIG VON MISES The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lack...
LUDWIG VON MISES There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences ca...
LUDWIG VON MISES Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world.
LUDWIG VON MISES The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and per...
LUDWIG VON MISES Progress cannot be organized.
LUDWIG VON MISES Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his ow...
LUDWIG VON MISES Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success a...
LUDWIG VON MISES The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by t...
LUDWIG VON MISES Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished ...
LUDWIG VON MISES Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.
LUDWIG VON MISES Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long ...
LUDWIG VON MISES It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branc...
LUDWIG VON MISES To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even ...
LUDWIG VON MISES The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable ...
LUDWIG VON MISES In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of i...
LUDWIG VON MISES Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and...
LUDWIG VON MISES Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius ...
LUDWIG VON MISES Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits...
LUDWIG VON MISES It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in...
LUDWIG VON MISES Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.
LUDWIG VON MISES Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one en...
LUDWIG VON MISES Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to ...
LUDWIG VON MISES He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues ma...
LUDWIG VON MISES Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its ...
LUDWIG VON MISES What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The proble...
LUDWIG VON MISES Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system i...
LUDWIG VON MISES Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich to...
LUDWIG VON MISES The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in w...
LUDWIG VON MISES ...it is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those prod...
LUDWIG VON MISES The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.
LUDWIG VON MISES Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISES To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude...
LUDWIG VON MISES If the small minority of enlightened citizens who are able to conceive sound principles of political...
LUDWIG VON MISES The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rule...
LUDWIG VON MISES For the sake of domestic peace, liberalism aims at democratic government. Democracy is therefore no...
LUDWIG VON MISES Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is e...
LUDWIG VON MISES Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection o...
LUDWIG VON MISES ...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed w...
LUDWIG VON MISES I would abdicate.
LUDWIG VON MISES Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a small...
LUDWIG VON MISES Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest ...
LUDWIG VON MISES Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as ...
LUDWIG VON MISES All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the in...
LUDWIG VON MISES The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conq...
LUDWIG VON MISES Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing a...
LUDWIG VON MISES When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social ph...
LUDWIG VON MISES The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is charac...
LUDWIG VON MISES It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.
LUDWIG VON MISES A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide do...
LUDWIG VON MISES Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.
LUDWIG VON MISES The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ...
LUDWIG VON MISES If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nat...
LUDWIG VON MISES Is precisely in market dealings that market prices are formed for all kinds of goods and services, w...
LUDWIG VON MISES The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a...
LUDWIG VON MISES The attempt to restrain prices within limits has to be given up. A government that sets out to aboli...
LUDWIG VON MISES Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from In...
LUDWIG VON SCHRODER I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am n...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was sta...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep a...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactl...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, ...
LUDWIG TIECK One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physic...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinka...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages ar...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now thi...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are
LUDWIG BORNE If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
LUDWIG BOLTZMANN Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over th...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since lo...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not c...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one t...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particula...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
LUDWIG BORNE If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at le...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Debate is the death of conversation.
EMIL LUDWIG Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
LUDWIG BORNE If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the ...
LUDWIG ERHARD It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN ...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my though...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality,...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar o...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relati...
EMIL LUDWIG Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making prog...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off an...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strang...
EMIL LUDWIG Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
LUDWIG BORNE Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dial...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any ph...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A confession has to be part of your new life.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
LUDWIG BEMELMANS Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one ph...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional spa...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriage...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep ag...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
LUDWIG BORNE