Ludwig von Mises Quotes

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor.

There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.

I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.

Human action is purposeful behavior.

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane.

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness.