My Years With Ludwig von Mises Quotes

“Von Mises has been a very persuasive evangel of his cause, which would have been called liberalism in the Nineteenth Century and might be more clearly described as conservatism in the Twentieth.”
― Margit von Mises, My Years With Ludwig von Mises

“(...) they treated the author and his work as they might have treated a young high school boy who timidly had sent them his first literary output.”
― Margit von Mises, My Years With Ludwig von Mises

“(...) My mother, who was ambitious for her children (I had an older brother who died in the First World War), employed an English governess for us; she did not want us to forget the English language. That proved to be one of the wisest things she could have done for us...”
― Margit von Mises, My Years With Ludwig von Mises

“Once in a while he also listened to a chamber-music concert on radio. When I tried to get him interested in a good television show he said, "It would take too much of my time," and he specially objected to listening to commentators. "I can do my thinking alone," was his reaction.”
― Margit von Mises, My Years With Ludwig von Mises

“At home he was constantly reading. Once he was asked: "Don't you have a hobby?" "Oh yes," he replied, "reading." His studio was his sanctuary, his books his treasures. The last thing he did at night before retiring was to go to the bookshelves and, like a gourmet studying the menu in a good restaurant, carefully select a book to enrich his evening.”
― Margit von Mises, My Years With Ludwig von Mises