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Karl Kraus
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a matchby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: stupidity force games nature fools
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention spanby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: culture destruction intentions attention
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answerby: Karl KrausQuote 2789
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysicsby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: lifetime truth fortune relationship reality
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to workby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: difference people work leisure laziness idleness indifference
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How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they readby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: opportunity lie world war
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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same timeby: Karl KrausQuote 2785
The real truths are those that can be inventedby: Karl KrausQuote 2784
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdomby: Karl KrausQuote 2783
The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by itby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: world possession art
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Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vainby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: right modesty vanity duty character
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaidenby: Karl KrausQuote 2780
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwardsby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: weakness doubt decision uncertainty strength
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appearby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: nature pressure justice crime opportunity risk
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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.'by: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: character animals humanity excuse
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilisby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: morality disease virtue boredom progress
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something newby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: idealism losses progress ability replacement
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When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.by: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: culture transience assistence help faith
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks backby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: attention perfection interest
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This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a characterby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: weakness character work success attention opportunity
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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of womenby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: morality mankind character virtue
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Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.by: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: stupidity action quarrel time misfortune
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He who sleeps half a day has won half a lifeby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: leisure rest recovery time benefit
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconsciousby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: awareness conviction self-knowledge knowledge
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thievesby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: jealousy animals opportunity emotions suspicion
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire countryby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: morality individualism corruption risk money greed
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiotsby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: education fools wisdom stupidity proof
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slaveby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: opportunity slavery politics
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalistby: Karl KrausQuote 2763
You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thoughtby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: ideas action thoughts effort surprise
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoidby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: chance individualism egoism decision loneliness
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our toolsby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: progress changes risk worthlessness nature indifference force
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapyby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: mind disease dependence
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaustby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: experience saving wisdom wastage miserliness worth
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Female personality is insubstantiality ennobled by unconsciousnessby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: personality weakness superficiality
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.by: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: children learning self-development changes fashion age
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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 formerby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: culture agreement civilization
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaustby: Karl KrausMore quotes on the topics: experience saving property wisdom wastage
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