Ludwig von Mises Quotes

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

My first thought is always of light.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.