Austrian Historian Quotes

Helen Diner

Friedrich Stadler

Strabo, traveling in North Africa … [did not find] its women in the army but found that they ruled the country politically, while the men were still without significance in the state, occupying themselves largely with body care and hair-do, greedy for golden jewelry with which to bedeck themselves. The Berbers of our times....[,] near the Atlas Mountains, … have preserved a strong gynocracy. In some Tuareg tribes, the women perpetuate the old culture and know Old Libyan writing and literature. Their men wear veils and remain illiterates.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

What is the Vienna Circle? is a question which is neither rhetorical nor trivial. It is perhaps an attempt to 'square the circle' – which is, meanwhile, mathematically possible, as Karl Menger described as early as 1934.

Friedrich Stadler