Karl Kraus quotes - page 5

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them. (Karl Kraus)
I hear noises which others don't hear and which disturb for me the music of the spheres, which others don't hear either. View quote
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I no longer have collaborators. I used to be envious of them. They repel those readers whom I want to lose myself. View quote
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Most writers have no other quality than the reader: taste. But the latter has the better taste, because he does not write - and the best if he does not read. View quote
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What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory? View quote
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long. An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. View quote
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There is no doubt that a dog is loyal. But does that mean we should emulate him? After all, he is loyal to people, not to other dogs. View quote
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. View quote
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. View quote
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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. View quote
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. (Karl Kraus)
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.' View quote
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. View quote
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. View quote
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. View quote
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. View quote
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. View quote
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. View quote
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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. View quote
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. View quote
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. (Karl Kraus)
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. View quote
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. View quote
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. View quote
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. View quote
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