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The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood (Karl Kraus Quotes)
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time (Karl Kraus Quotes)
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer (Karl Kraus Quotes)
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, ‘After all, I’m human.’ When he behaves like a beast, he says ‘After all, I’m only human (Karl Kraus Quotes)
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven’t heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise (Karl Kraus Quotes)
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked (Karl Kraus Quotes)
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord (Karl Kraus Quotes)
One’s need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried. (Karl Kraus Quotes)
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. (Karl Kraus Quotes)
There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren’t. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes. (Karl Kraus Quotes)
What is a historian? Someone who doesn’t write well enough to work on a daily. (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Not greeting people isn’t enough. One also doesn’t greet people one doesn’t know. (Karl Kraus Quotes)
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. (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays (Karl Kraus Quotes)
You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought (Karl Kraus Quotes)
The aesthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love (Karl Kraus Quotes)
The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune tellers to metaphysics (Karl Kraus Quotes)
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart’s desire! (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? (Karl Kraus Quotes)
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy (Karl Kraus Quotes)