Karl Kraus Quotes

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Karl Kraus

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid

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Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

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He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

Karl Kraus

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Karl Kraus

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

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

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A woman who cannot be ugly, is not beautiful

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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram

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Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match

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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

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