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Inspirational Quotes by Karl Kraus
- Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
- A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
- Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
- A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
- He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
- The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
- It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
- It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
- I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
- The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
- Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
- A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
- Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
- The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
- Talent is often a defect in character.
- Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
- Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
- Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
- You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
- Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
- I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
- Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
- A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
- Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
- I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento