All Karl Kraus Quotes
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Karl Kraus
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Karl Kraus
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Karl Kraus
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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.
Karl Kraus
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
Karl Kraus
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
Karl Kraus
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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.
Karl Kraus
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Karl Kraus
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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