Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. — Karl Kraus Events Copy Share Image
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein. — Karl Kraus Checks Copy Share Image
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. — Karl Kraus Education Copy Share Image
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. — Karl Kraus Democracy Copy Share Image
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can… — Karl Kraus Bigs Copy Share Image
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! — Karl Kraus Bacchus Copy Share Image
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. — Karl Kraus Distance 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 War Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated. — Karl Kraus Chess Copy Share Image
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most… — Karl Kraus Books Copy Share Image
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor. — Karl Kraus Love thy neighbor Copy Share Image
I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head. — Karl Kraus Education 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
How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting. — Karl Kraus Lying Copy Share Image
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism. — Karl Kraus Able Copy Share Image
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to… — Karl Kraus Acquire Copy Share Image
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline:… — Karl Kraus Ability Copy Share Image
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. — Karl Kraus Beggar 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
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned. — Karl Kraus Blushing Copy Share Image
