An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time — Karl Kraus Blockheads Copy Share Image
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. — Karl Kraus Force Copy Share Image
Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair. — Karl Kraus Barbershop Copy Share Image
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold. — Karl Kraus Assurance 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 Benches Copy Share Image
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. — Karl Kraus Dreams Copy Share Image
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer. — Karl Kraus Character Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. — Karl Kraus Illness Copy Share Image
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? — Karl Kraus Children Copy Share Image
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle… — Karl Kraus Sun Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it. — Karl Kraus Goals 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 Women Copy Share Image
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. — Karl Kraus Children Copy Share Image
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering;… — Karl Kraus Anti war Copy Share Image
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. — Karl Kraus Contempt Copy Share Image
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it. — Karl Kraus Arise 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 Expectations Copy Share Image
I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use… — Karl Kraus Day and night Copy Share Image
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he. — Karl Kraus Audience Copy Share Image
