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Karl Kraus Quotes

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We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end  (Karl Kraus Quotes) I hear noises which others don’t hear and which disturb for me the music of the spheres, which others don’t hear either  (Karl Kraus Quotes) It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas  (Karl Kraus Quotes) The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he  (Karl Kraus Quotes) Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country  (Karl Kraus Quotes) 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 Quotes) Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work  (Karl Kraus Quotes) He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent  (Karl Kraus Quotes) 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 Quotes) I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up  (Karl Kraus Quotes) It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new  (Karl Kraus Quotes) It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean  (Karl Kraus Quotes) 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 Quotes) Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write  (Karl Kraus Quotes) Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis  (Karl Kraus Quotes) My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious  (Karl Kraus Quotes) The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back  (Karl Kraus Quotes) There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman’s shoe and has to settle for the whole woman  (Karl Kraus Quotes) There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything  (Karl Kraus Quotes) To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all  (Karl Kraus Quotes) The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on  (Karl Kraus Quotes) Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse  (Karl Kraus Quotes) If something is stolen from you, don’t go to the police. They’re not interested. Don’t go to a psychologist either, because he’s interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing  (Karl Kraus Quotes) It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular  (Karl Kraus Quotes) It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I’ve always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed  (Karl Kraus Quotes) The blind won’t admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I’m dumb  (Karl Kraus Quotes) I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words  (Karl Kraus Quotes) Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?  (Karl Kraus Quotes) A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency  (Karl Kraus Quotes) My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once  (Karl Kraus Quotes)
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