Best Karl Kraus Sayings
- This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be… Art
- Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to… Adults
- Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. Absolutely
- A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality. Eroticism
- Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. Marriage
- When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. Culture
- Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. Accustomed
- The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. Expresses
- One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. Alone
- Talent is often a defect in character. Character
- Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators… Blockheads
- The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. Concave
- Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. Avoid
- When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm… All
- What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to… Cigarette
- The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such… Attempt
- Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden Censor
- An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time Blockhead
- Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed. Immortality
- Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. Fortune
- It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper. Described
- Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. Corruption
- Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. Attracts
- How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. Anti War
- You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. Action
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