All Karl Kraus Quotes
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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Experience
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Karl Kraus
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Karl Kraus
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Karl Kraus
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
Karl Kraus
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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.
Karl Kraus
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Karl Kraus
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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.
Karl Kraus
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
Karl Kraus
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Karl Kraus
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Karl Kraus
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Karl Kraus
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