I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams. — 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
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
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,… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
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… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
