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Life Quotes by Karl Kraus
- Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to…
- 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.
- Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to…
- Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
- Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators…
- What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to…
- Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
- If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
- A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
- I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
- The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
- Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
- Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle