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 fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! — 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 Copy Share Image
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. — 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
The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human… — 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
