An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. — Karl Kraus Aphorism Copy Share Image
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose… — Karl Kraus Feet Copy Share Image
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored. — Karl Kraus Art 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
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. — Karl Kraus Enough 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
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus Agreement Copy Share Image
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him. — Karl Kraus Distinguished Copy Share Image
A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct. — Karl Kraus Instinct Copy Share Image
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. — Karl Kraus Consciousness Copy Share Image
A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A… — Karl Kraus Erotic Copy Share Image
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus Fortune Copy Share Image
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. — Karl Kraus Life Copy Share Image
If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is… — 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
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. — Karl Kraus Deny 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 devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. — Karl Kraus Devil Copy Share Image
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants. — Karl Kraus Doe Copy Share Image
