What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him… — Karl Kraus Cigarette Copy Share Image
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now… — Karl Kraus Forewarned Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Books Copy Share Image
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored. — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. — Karl Kraus Children Copy Share Image
The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror… — Karl Kraus Creativity Copy Share Image
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed. — Karl Kraus Austria Copy Share Image
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold. — Karl Kraus Assurance Copy Share Image
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. — Karl Kraus Consciousness Copy Share Image
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle… — Karl Kraus Sun Copy Share Image
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use… — Karl Kraus Day and night Copy Share Image
Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head. — Karl Kraus Education Copy Share Image
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering;… — Karl Kraus Anti war Copy Share Image
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able… — Karl Kraus Ability Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it. — Karl Kraus Goals Copy Share Image
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus Age Copy Share Image
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. — Karl Kraus Clarity Copy Share Image
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the… — Karl Kraus Corruption Copy Share Image
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! — Karl Kraus Bacchus Copy Share Image
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another. — Karl Kraus Being faithful Copy Share Image
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it… — Karl Kraus Learning Copy Share Image
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. — Karl Kraus Experience Copy Share Image
Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of… — Karl Kraus Bestiality Copy Share Image
“There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any… — Karl Kraus Beautiful Copy Share Image
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
