The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt. — Karl Kraus Asphalt Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well. — Karl Kraus Dignity Copy Share Image
On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person. — Karl Kraus Acting Copy Share Image
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. — Karl Kraus Animal Copy Share Image
A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct. — Karl Kraus Instinct Copy Share Image
The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free… — Karl Kraus Art 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 Consumers Copy Share Image
Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly… — Karl Kraus Dream Copy Share Image
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts. — Karl Kraus Be proud 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 Backwards Copy Share Image
A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a… — Karl Kraus Abbreviations Copy Share Image
“How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.” — Karl Kraus Lies Copy Share Image
To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal… — Karl Kraus Accounts Copy Share Image
The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by… — Karl Kraus Bedroom Copy Share Image
That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before… — Karl Kraus Actors 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 Able 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 Achievement Copy Share Image
In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot… — Karl Kraus Able 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 Arise 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 Art Copy Share Image
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse… — Karl Kraus Expectation Copy Share Image
In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left… — Karl Kraus Great saying by great authors 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 Age Copy Share Image
