Progress … has subordinated the purpose of life to the mean… - Karl Kraus

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Progress … 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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Karl Kraus (28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936) was an Austrian journalist, satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet.

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Alternative Names: Karel Kraus

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Progress … has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools. - Karl Kraus

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