Quotes by Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus

Austrian writer and journalist

Lived from: 1874 - 1936

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagAustria

Born: 28 april 1874 Died: 12 june 1936

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  • Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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  • Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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  • My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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  • News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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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 tools.
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  • Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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  • Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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  • Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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  • Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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  • Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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  • Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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  • The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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  • The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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  • The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
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  • The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
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  • The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
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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.
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  • The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated - namely, the lavatory.
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  • The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
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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 character.
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