Karl Kraus Quotes & Quotations

Karl Kraus Quotes

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

» A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

» The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

» Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

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

» An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.

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

» The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

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

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

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