Karl Kraus quotes - page 7

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets. (Karl Kraus)
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life. View quote
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Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain. View quote
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater. View quote
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long. View quote
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The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer. View quote
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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off. View quote
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Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. View quote
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The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it. View quote
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books. View quote
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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original. (Karl Kraus)
Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. View quote
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Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines Nature can rely on progress it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it. View quote
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