Karl Kraus Quotes

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Karl Kraus

Sorry, Law, Fellow

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
Karl Kraus

Work, Time, Democracy

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Karl Kraus

Life, Through, Learn

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Karl Kraus

Education, Few, Pass

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Karl Kraus

Passion, Feminine, Epic

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
Karl Kraus

Himself, Praise, Crowd

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
Karl Kraus

Anyone, Popular, Becomes

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
Karl Kraus

Life, Made, Opponents

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

Understand, Public, Hear

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
Karl Kraus

Him, Vision, Walk

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Karl Kraus

Mean, Means, Express

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

Old, Style, Ability

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus

Mother, Thought, Language

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus

Union, Martyrdom, Meanness

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Karl Kraus

Ideas, Ability, Express

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

Art, Science, Light

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Karl Kraus

Education, Sex, Children

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus

Solitude, Avoid, Ideal

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Karl Kraus

Time, Someone, Away

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Karl Kraus

Nature, Justice, Human

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus

Word, Takes, Looks

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Karl Kraus

Attention, While, Culture

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Karl Kraus

Order, Test, Sound

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus

Fire, Trouble, Germans

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Writer

Born: April 28, 1874

Died: June 12, 1936

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