Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. — Karl Kraus Children Copy Share Image
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now… — Karl Kraus Forewarned Copy Share Image
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror… — Karl Kraus Creativity Copy Share Image
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. — Karl Kraus Consciousness Copy Share Image
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle… — Karl Kraus Sun Copy Share Image
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold. — Karl Kraus Assurance Copy Share Image
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed. — Karl Kraus Austria Copy Share Image
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering;… — Karl Kraus Anti war Copy Share Image
Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use… — Karl Kraus Day and night Copy Share Image
I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head. — Karl Kraus Education Copy Share Image
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something… — Karl Kraus Ability Copy Share Image
It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting. — Karl Kraus Lying Copy Share Image
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves. — Karl Kraus Buddhism Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like… — Karl Kraus Body Copy Share Image
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus Benches Copy Share Image
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him… — Karl Kraus Cigarette Copy Share Image
So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation. — Karl Kraus Father Copy Share Image
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper. — Karl Kraus Faith Copy Share Image
A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just… — Karl Kraus Altruism Copy Share Image
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord. — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
“»Den Weltmarkt erobern«: Weil Händler so sprachen, mußten Krieger so handeln. Seitdem wird erobert, wenngleich nicht der Weltmarkt.” — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. — Karl Kraus Differences Copy Share Image
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. — Karl Kraus Fire Copy Share Image
