Karl Kraus quotes - page 6

If I return some people's greetings, I do so only to give them their greeting back. (Karl Kraus)
Nestroy's words ought to apply to an artist and an idea: "I have made a prisoner, and he won't let go of me!" View quote
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When the word "peace" was uttered for the first time, there was panic at the stock exchange. They screamed in pain: "We've been earning! Leave us the war! We've earned the war!" View quote
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When someone has behaved like an animal, he says: "I'm only human!" But when he is treated like an animal, he says: "I'm human, too!" View quote
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You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought. View quote
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. View quote
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Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well. View quote
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They judge lest they be judged. View quote
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In one ear and out the other: this would still make the head a transit station. What I hear has to go out the same ear. View quote
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. View quote
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. (Karl Kraus)
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. View quote
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Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work. View quote
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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time. View quote
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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. View quote
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Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure. View quote
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools. View quote
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This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character. View quote
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A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. View quote
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A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality. View quote
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If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator. (Karl Kraus)
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden. View quote
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The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory. View quote
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The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion. View quote
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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. View quote
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