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

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Karl Kraus

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus