Karl Kraus quotes

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. (Karl Kraus)
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. View quote
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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis. View quote
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. View quote
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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women. View quote
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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. View quote
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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. View quote
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. View quote
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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way. View quote
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The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner. View quote
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. (Karl Kraus)
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. View quote
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! View quote
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. View quote
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat. View quote
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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. View quote
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. View quote
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. View quote
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The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one. View quote
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. View quote
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. (Karl Kraus)
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. View quote
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. View quote
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. View quote
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. View quote
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