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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 Quotes)
If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman’s enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work (Karl Kraus Quotes)
It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one (Karl Kraus Quotes)
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces? (Karl Kraus Quotes)
What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful? (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible (Karl Kraus Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A man’s jealousy is a social institution; a woman’s prostitution is an instinct (Karl Kraus Quotes)
I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head (Karl Kraus Quotes)
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand (Karl Kraus Quotes)
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Morality is a burglar’s tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud (Karl Kraus Quotes)
I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails (Karl Kraus Quotes)
One cleans someone else’s threshold of consciousness only if one’s own home is dirty (Karl Kraus Quotes)
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one’s own (Karl Kraus Quotes)
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music (Karl Kraus Quotes)
On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person (Karl Kraus Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there (Karl Kraus Quotes)
I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating (Karl Kraus Quotes)
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable (Karl Kraus Quotes)
A father’s pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation (Karl Kraus Quotes)
If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me (Karl Kraus Quotes)
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him (Karl Kraus Quotes)