You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Action Copy Share Image
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. — Karl Kraus Closer Copy Share Image
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. — Karl Kraus Imagination Copy Share Image
Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds. — Karl Kraus Anesthesia Copy Share Image
One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty. — Karl Kraus Cleans Copy Share Image
It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one. — Karl Kraus Lived Copy Share Image
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with… — Karl Kraus Bloody Copy Share Image
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. — Karl Kraus Differences Copy Share Image
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. — Karl Kraus Fire Copy Share Image
“»Den Weltmarkt erobern«: Weil Händler so sprachen, mußten Krieger so handeln. Seitdem wird erobert, wenngleich nicht der Weltmarkt.” — Karl Kraus Welt Copy Share Image
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord. — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained… — Karl Kraus Causes Copy Share Image
A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation. — Karl Kraus Father Copy Share Image
It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought… — Karl Kraus Believe 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 Doe Copy Share Image
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are… — Karl Kraus Doe Copy Share Image
There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another… — Karl Kraus Coats 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 Atrocities 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
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
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
When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that. — Karl Kraus Destiny Copy Share Image
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned. — Karl Kraus Blushing Copy Share Image
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein. — Karl Kraus Beware Copy Share Image
