Karl Kraus Quotes
- When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket… Believe
- There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. Beggar
- Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? Book
- Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. Hate
- A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head. Deal
- Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to… Bolts
- Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. Handmaiden
- Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. Bays
- A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. Inspirational
- He who sleeps half a day has won half a life. Day
- Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them. Break
- Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. Appear
- I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's… Bench
- Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than… Activate
- The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women. Amorality
- The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. Beauty
- Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure Cure
- The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do… Appearance
- Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work. Imagination
- In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious. Berlin