Quotes by Karl Kraus
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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.
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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.'
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
