Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know. — Karl Kraus Acquaintance Copy Share Image
If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer. — Karl Kraus Character Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated. — Karl Kraus Chess Copy Share Image
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed. — Karl Kraus Death Copy Share Image
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried. — Karl Kraus Animal Copy Share Image
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. — Karl Kraus Birth Copy Share Image
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline:… — Karl Kraus Ability 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 Copy Share Image
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. — Karl Kraus Beauty Copy Share Image
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper. — Karl Kraus Faith Copy Share Image
A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just… — Karl Kraus Altruism Copy Share Image
A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation. — Karl Kraus Father Copy Share Image
Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them. — Karl Kraus Agreement Copy Share Image
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. — Karl Kraus Character Copy Share Image
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace. — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. — Karl Kraus Child Copy Share Image
One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long. — Karl Kraus Aphorism Copy Share Image
“A weak man has doubts before a decision, a stong man has them afterwards.” — Karl Kraus Decision making Copy Share Image
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus Acting Copy Share Image
To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained… — Karl Kraus 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
“»Den Weltmarkt erobern«: Weil Händler so sprachen, mußten Krieger so handeln. Seitdem wird erobert, wenngleich nicht der Weltmarkt.” — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. — Karl Kraus Fire Copy Share Image
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. — Karl Kraus Differences Copy Share Image
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves. — Karl Kraus Buddhism Copy Share Image
How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting. — Karl Kraus Lying Copy Share Image
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something… — Karl Kraus Ability Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like… — Karl Kraus Body Copy Share Image
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus Benches Copy Share Image
So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
