When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that. — Karl Kraus Destiny Copy Share Image
One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty. — Karl Kraus Cleans Copy Share Image
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. — Karl Kraus Imagination Copy Share Image
One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin;… — Karl Kraus Borders Copy Share Image
Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands… — Karl Kraus 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
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus Agreement Copy Share Image
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do… — Karl Kraus Books Copy Share Image
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Action Copy Share Image
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. — Karl Kraus Inspirational Copy Share Image
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way. — Karl Kraus Beautiful Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received. — Karl Kraus Disproportionate Copy Share Image
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious. — Karl Kraus Berlin Copy Share Image
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws. — Karl Kraus Chastity Copy Share Image
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. — Karl Kraus Crime Copy Share Image
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. — Karl Kraus Decision Copy Share Image
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. — Karl Kraus Education Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush. — Karl Kraus Adults Copy Share Image
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. — Karl Kraus Ability Copy Share Image
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. — Karl Kraus Education Copy Share Image
I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Inspirational Copy Share Image
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating. — Karl Kraus Communication Copy Share Image
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. — Karl Kraus Hate Copy Share Image
