Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian economist, philosopher, author and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern libertarian movement and the Austrian School.

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The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peaceamong nations too.

• The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn. ... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression. ... All nations can coexist peacefully...
  • Omnipotent Government : The Rise of the Total State and Total War (1944)

• The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.
  • Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War (1944)

• Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
  • The Free Market and Its Enemies, speech to the Foundation for Economic Education[1] (1951)

• If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
  • Planning for Freedom (1952), p. 44

• You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.
  • Mises' letter to Ayn Rand praising Atlas Shrugged,(23 January 1958), quoted in Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism (2007).

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Aleister Crowley

“Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Aleister Crowley

“Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
tags: attachment, death, loss, worth 395 likes/shares Like
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if hes does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
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“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion in the only guarantee of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality 269 likes/shares Like
“... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
tags: arthur-schopenhauer, death, right, schopenhauer, suicide, title 231 likes/shares Like
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
tags: humor 207 likes/shares Like
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
tags: compassion, morality, morals 196 likes/shares Like
“If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Life without pain has no meaning.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
tags: manners, politeness, rudeness 157 likes/shares Like
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
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“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
tags: clarity, naivete, simplicity, writing 139 likes/shares Like
“We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts , the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
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“Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
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“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
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“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
tags: divine, god, houmor, humour, man, sense 98 likes/shares Like
“It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. ”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

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