Karl Kraus Quotes
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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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.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.