In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot… — Karl Kraus 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 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
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume… — Karl Kraus 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 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
