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Type: Writer Quotes Category: Austrian Writer Quotes Date of Birth: April 28, 1874 Date of Death: June 12, 1936 Nationality: Austrian Find on Amazon: Karl Kraus Related Authors: Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mason Cooley Voltaire H. L. Mencken Gilbert K. Chesterton Eric Hoffer Bill James Jeff Long |
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! Karl Kraus A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. Karl Kraus A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. Karl Kraus An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. Karl Kraus Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? Karl Kraus Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. Karl Kraus Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. Karl Kraus Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. Karl Kraus Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. Karl Kraus Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. Karl Kraus Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. Karl Kraus Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. Karl Kraus Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. Karl Kraus Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. Karl Kraus Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Karl Kraus Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. Karl Kraus He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. Karl Kraus How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. Karl Kraus How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. Karl Kraus I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. Karl Kraus I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. Karl Kraus I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. Karl Kraus I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. Karl Kraus I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. Karl Kraus If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. Karl Kraus Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work. Karl Kraus It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. Karl Kraus It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. Karl Kraus Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. Karl Kraus Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. Karl Kraus Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. Karl Kraus Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor. Karl Kraus Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. Karl Kraus Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. Karl Kraus Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. Karl Kraus My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. Karl Kraus No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. Karl Kraus Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. Karl Kraus Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure. Karl Kraus Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. Karl Kraus Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. Karl Kraus Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. Karl Kraus Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. Karl Kraus Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. Karl Kraus Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. Karl Kraus Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. Karl Kraus Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. Karl Kraus Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. Karl Kraus The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. Karl Kraus The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. Karl Kraus The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. Karl Kraus The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. Karl Kraus There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. Karl Kraus There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. Karl Kraus To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. Karl Kraus Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. Karl Kraus When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.' Karl Kraus You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought. Karl Kraus |
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