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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

In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct. — Karl Kraus

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

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. — Karl Kraus

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. — Karl Kraus

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain. — Karl Kraus

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater. — Karl Kraus

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half. — Karl Kraus

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. — 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

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed. — Karl Kraus

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. — 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

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room. — Karl Kraus

The real truths are those that can be invented. — Karl Kraus

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. — Karl Kraus

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush. — Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. — 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

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man. — Karl Kraus

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. — Karl Kraus

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs. — 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

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. — Karl Kraus

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age. — 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

Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them. — Karl Kraus

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought. — Karl Kraus

Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks. — 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

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. — Karl Kraus

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. — Karl Kraus

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. — Karl Kraus

My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions. — Karl Kraus

Politics is what a man does in order to conceal what he is and what he himself does not know. — Karl Kraus

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak. — Karl Kraus

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time — Karl Kraus

A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking. — Karl Kraus

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times. — Karl Kraus

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it. — Karl Kraus

A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit. — Karl Kraus

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do! — Karl Kraus

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. — Karl Kraus

You don't even live once. — Karl Kraus

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws. — Karl Kraus

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting. — Karl Kraus

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long. — Karl Kraus

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. — Karl Kraus

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. — Karl Kraus

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. — Karl Kraus

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein. — Karl Kraus

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating. — Karl Kraus

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body. — 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

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. — Karl Kraus

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. — Karl Kraus

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head. — Karl Kraus

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. — Karl Kraus

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. — Karl Kraus

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. — Karl Kraus

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas. — Karl Kraus

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. — 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

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. — 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

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. — 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

We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end. — Karl Kraus

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct. — Karl Kraus

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them. — Karl Kraus

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable. — Karl Kraus

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord. — Karl Kraus

If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams. — Karl Kraus

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it. — Karl Kraus

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read. — Karl Kraus

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth. — Karl Kraus

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 of my language. — Karl Kraus

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? — Karl Kraus

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. — Karl Kraus