Karl Kraus Quotes About Literature
-
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
→ -
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
→ -
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
→ -
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
→ -
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
→ -
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
→ -
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
→ -
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
→ -
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
→ -
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
→ -
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
→ -
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
→ -
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.
→ -
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
→ -
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
→ -
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
→ -
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
→ -
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
→ -
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
→ -
Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.
→ -
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
→ -
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
→ -
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.
→ -
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
→ -
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.
→ -
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
→ -
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
→ -
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
→ -
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
→ -
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
→
Related Authors
-
Arnold Schoenberg Composer -
Arthur Schnitzler Author -
Else Lasker-Schuler Poet -
Thomas Bernhard Novelist -
Walter Benjamin Literary critic -
Jonathan Franzen Novelist -
Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher -
Oskar Kokoschka Artist -
Peter Handke Novelist -
Alban Berg Composer -
Peter Altenberg Writer -
Ingeborg Bachmann Poet -
Otto Weininger Philosopher -
Robert Musil Writer -
Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher -
Hugo von Hofmannsthal Novelist -
Hermann Bahr Writer -
Stefan Zweig Novelist -
Adolf Loos Architect -
Hermann Broch Writer