Hans Asperger Quotes

We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better than anyone else could, and we are talking of people who as children had the greatest difficulties and caused untold worries to their care-givers. ~ Hans Asperger

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential. ~ Hans Asperger

Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect. ~ Hans Asperger

Asperger's actions are perhaps more reflective of the nature of perpetration in the Third Reich than those of more prominent figures. The Reich's systems of extermination depended upon people like Asperger, who maneuvered themselves, perhaps uncritically, within their positions. Individuals such as Asperger were neither committed killers nor even directly involved in the moment of death. Yet, in the absence of murderous convictions, they made the Reich's killing systems possible. ~ Edith Sheffer

The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence. ~ Hans Asperger

For a while, every smart and shy eccentric from Bobby Fischer to Bill Gate was hastily fitted with this label, and many were more or less believably retrofitted, including Isaac Newton, Edgar Allen Pie, Michelangelo, and Virginia Woolf. Newton had great trouble forming friendships and probably remained celibate. In Poe's poem Alone, he wrote that "All I lov'd - I lov'd alone." Michelangelo is said to have written "I have no friends of any sort and I don't want any." Woolf killed herself.
Asperger's disorder, once considered a sub-type of autism, was named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, a pioneer, in the 1940s, in identifying and describing autism. Unlike other early researchers, according to the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, Asperger felt that autistic people could have beneficial talents, especially what he called a "particular originality of thought" that was often beautiful and pure, unfiltered by culture of discretion, unafraid to grasp at extremely unconventional ideas. Nearly every autistic person that Sacks observed appeard happiest when alone. The word "autism" is derived from autos, the Greek word for "self."
"The cure for Asperger's syndrome is very simple," wrote Tony Attwood, a psychologist and Asperger's expert who lives in Australia. The solution is to leave the person alone. "You cannot have a social deficit when you are alone. You cannot have a communication problem when you are alone. All the diagnostic criteria dissolve in so ~ Michael Finkel

Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior". ~ Hans Asperger

Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open field wherein he himself can love. If the prodigal son had not believed that the father's love was already waiting for him, he would not have been able to make the journey home - even if his father's love welcomes him in a way he never would have dreamed of. The decisive thing is that the sinner has heard of a love that could be, and really is, there for him; he is not the one who has to bring himself into line with God; God has always already seen in him, the loveless sinner, a beloved child and has looked upon him and conferred dignity upon him in the light of this love. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases with progesterone, thyroid extracts and vitamin E respectively. In theory, thyroid therapy appears to be the least well-founded, especially when applied to women without manifest signs of hypothyroidism, yet among the measures mentioned above it is most frequently claimed to have been successful. ~ Hans Selye

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage. ~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe

It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not. ~ Hans Fallada

As One and Unique, and yet as one who is to be understood only in the context of mankind's entire history and in the context of the whole created cosmos, Jesus it the Word, the Image, the Expression and the Exegesis of God. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

My life will be the best illustration of all my work. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

At a certain moment, when I started doing my own shows, I felt it would be really interesting to know what is the history of my profession. I realized that there was no book, which was kind of a shock. ~ Hans Ulrich Obrist

Chuck functions here as a kind of authenticity fetish, allowing Hans (and the reader) the nostalgic pleasure of returning to a narrative time when symbols and mottoes were full of meaning and novels weren't neurotic, but could aim themselves simply and purely at transcendent feeling. ~ Zadie Smith

I need to build my team around my weaknesses. ~ Hans Vestberg

Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos. ~ Hans Jonas

I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face. ~ Hans Kung

Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so. ~ Hans Blix

Hans Walter Wolff has suggested that the Sabbath is the great equalizer, for that day is a foretaste of the kingdom when all-great and small-are reckoned to be exactly equal .2' All-masters and slaves-are to engage in this most godlike activity of being at peace. ~ Walter Brueggemann

Yes, it always pays when the wife believes and admits that her husband is the wisest man in the world and that whatever he does is right. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon. ~ Hans Blix

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction. ~ Hans Werner Henze

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure. ~ Hans Arp

For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming fire. Nothing is more majestic than his Passion; even his anxiety is sublime. And God never denies his attributes to those who are his light in the world. They shine like stars in the cosmos, and even their anxiety, if God allows it, bears the marks of their divine destiny. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Occasionally one speaks ... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order ... ~ Hans Reichenbach

Man is the creature with a mystery in his heart that is bigger than himself. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there. ~ Hans Vestberg

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. ~ Hans Blix

The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General. ~ Hans Frank

Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car. ~ Hans Vestberg

Sex is good, especially when you love someone."
That was another potential minefield, but Hans took a tentative step. "It's very good for me, sabakee."
Boris looked into his eyes for a long time, and Hans saw the light gradually dawn, as he realized what Hans meant. He stroked Hans's cheek and smiled affectionately. "I should not say this, but… it is very good for me too, puppy ~ Jamie Fessenden

There comes a time when every life goes off course, when you must choose a direction. Will you fight to stay on path? Will others tell you who you are, or will you label yourself? Will you face your greatest fear bravely? Or will you succumb to the darkness in your soul? Will you be haunted by your choice? Or will you embrace your new path? Each morning you choose to move forward or simply give up."

~ Hans Gunther Adler

A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology ... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes. ~ Hans-Georg Gadamer

The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided. ~ Hans Koning

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do. ~ Hans Haacke

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters. ~ Hans F. Sennholz

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages. ~ Hans Arp

The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality. ~ Hans Hofmann

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule. ~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe

We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities, but also to show how often they are central beliefs by describing what is specifically Catholic in such a way that the partner in dialogue can see, even from his own standpoint, the inner consistency. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

An electron is real; a probability is not. ~ Hans Christian Von Baeyer

That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting. ~ Hans Matheson

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love. ~ Hans Ulrich Obrist

Where are your sons?" asked the prince.
"Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!" said the woman. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position. ~ Hans Kung

People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious "possibilist". That's something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful. ~ Hans Rosling

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it. ~ Hans Blix

The streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. / thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. / wings brush against flowers. / fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar. ~ Hans Arp