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Zitat des Tages von Karl Kraus:

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

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

Karl Kraus

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

Karl Kraus

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

Karl Kraus

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Karl Kraus

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

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

Karl Kraus

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

Karl Kraus

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

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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.

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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.'

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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Karl Kraus

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

Karl Kraus

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

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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.

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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.

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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Karl Kraus