I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. — Karl Kraus Dreams Copy Share Image
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus Fortune Copy Share Image
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. — Karl Kraus Family Copy Share Image
If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. — Karl Kraus Attention Copy Share Image
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. — Karl Kraus Aphorism 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 Copy Share Image
Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly… — Karl Kraus Dream Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see… — Karl Kraus Apocalypse 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
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there. — Karl Kraus Psychoanalysis Copy Share Image
Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink,… — Karl Kraus Age Copy Share Image
Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought. — Karl Kraus Language Copy Share Image
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. — Karl Kraus Events Copy Share Image
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it. — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. — Karl Kraus Compulsion Copy Share Image
Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth? — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable. — Karl Kraus Advice Copy Share Image
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. — Karl Kraus Journalists Copy Share Image
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. — Karl Kraus Education 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
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? — Karl Kraus Children Copy Share Image
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor. — Karl Kraus Love Copy Share Image
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.” — Karl Kraus Devil Copy Share Image
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. — Karl Kraus Cancer Copy Share Image
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman. — Karl Kraus Character Copy Share Image
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. — Karl Kraus Atheism Copy Share Image
How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned. — Karl Kraus Blushing Copy Share Image
