Karl Kraus Quotes
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Karl Kraus Quotes & Sayings
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It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
— Karl Kraus
In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.
— Karl Kraus
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
— Karl Kraus
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
— Karl Kraus
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
— Karl Kraus
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
— Karl Kraus
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
— Karl Kraus
Progress makes purses out of human skin.
— Karl Kraus
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
— Karl Kraus
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
— Karl Kraus
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
— Karl Kraus
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
— Karl Kraus
Medicine: Your money and your life!
— Karl Kraus
The real truths are those that can be invented.
— Karl Kraus
If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
— Karl Kraus
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
— Karl Kraus
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
— Karl Kraus
A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
— Karl Kraus
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
— Karl Kraus
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
— Karl Kraus
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
— Karl Kraus
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
— Karl Kraus
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
— Karl Kraus
If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
— Karl Kraus
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
— Karl Kraus
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
— Karl Kraus
Science is spectrum analysis. Art is Photosynthesis.
— Karl Kraus
Politics is what a man does in order to conceal what he is and what he himself does not know.
— Karl Kraus
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
— Karl Kraus
Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!
— Karl Kraus
You don't even live once.
— Karl Kraus
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
— Karl Kraus
Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more.
— Karl Kraus
I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
— Karl Kraus
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
— Karl Kraus
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
— Karl Kraus
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
— Karl Kraus
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
— Karl Kraus
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
— Karl Kraus
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.
— Karl Kraus
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
— Karl Kraus
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
— Karl Kraus
Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
— Karl Kraus
