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Karl Kraus [1874-1936] Austrian

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Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics.

Communication, Education, Experience, Imagination, Jealousy, Science, Time, War, Wisdom

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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.		101
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.		102
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.	Experience, Wisdom	103
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.	Time	104
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.		105
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.	Jealousy	106
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.		107
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.	Education	108
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.	War	109
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.	Education	110
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.		111
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.		112
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.		113
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.		114
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.		115
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.	Science	116
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.		117
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.		118
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.		119
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.		120
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.		121
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.	Communication	122
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.		123
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.		124
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.	Imagination	125
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.		126
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.		201
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.		202
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.	Communication	203
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.		204
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.'		205
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.		206
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.		207
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?		208
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.		209
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.		210
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.		211
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.		212
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.		213
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.		214
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.		215
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.		216
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.		217
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.		218
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.		219
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.		220
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.		221
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.		222
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.		223
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.		224
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.		225
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!		226
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.		301
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.		302

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