Karl Kraus Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.