Karl Kraus Quotes

Uma mulher é, às vezes, uma alternativa satisfatória à masturbação. Claro que ela exige muito mais imaginação de nossa parte.

»Den Weltmarkt erobern«: Weil Händler so sprachen, mußten Krieger so handeln. Seitdem wird erobert, wenngleich nicht der Weltmarkt.

One must read all writers twice - the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Soldiers who don't know what they're fighting for know, nevertheless, what they're not fighting for.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

Es gibt Menschen, die es zeitlebens einem Bettler nachtragen, daß sie ihm nichts gegeben haben.

[on Georg Trakl:] it was always inconceivable to me that he could live. His madness wrestled with godly things.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping something might improve if I viewed all sides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and be able use one’s prejudice as an excuse.