The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and… — Karl Kraus 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 Copy Share Image
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose… — 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
