Karl Kraus Quotes

To Be Perfect, One Lacks Only A Defect.

Ideas Are Transplanted By Splitting, Thoughts By Sprouting.

Why Didn't Eternity Have This Deformed Age Aborted ? Its Birthmark Is The Stamp Of A Newspaper, Its Medium Is Printer's Ink, And In Its Veins Flows Ink.

Mankind Became Hysterical In The Middle Ages Because It Poorly Repressed The Sexual Impressions Of Its Greek Boyhood.

Virginity Is The Ideal Of Those Who Want To Deflower.

An Aphorism Is Never Exactly True; It Is Either A Half-truth Or One-and-a-half Truths.

Nothing Is More Horrible Than My Self In The Mirror Of Hysteria. Nothing Is More Vulgar Than My Style In The Hands Of Another. Toimitate Me Is To Punish Me.

An Artist Should Make Concessions To The Listener. That Is Why Bruckner Dedicated One Of His Symphonies To The Good Lord.

I Would Have Stage-fright If I Had To Speak With Every One Of The People Before Whom I Speak.

A Journalist Is Stimulated By A Deadline. He Writes Worse When He Has Time

One Can Translate An Editorial But Not A Poem. For One Can Go Across The Border Naked But Not Without One's Skin; For, Unlike Clothes, One Cannot Get A New Skin.

Christianity Has Enriched The Erotic Meal With The Appetizer Of Curiosity And Spoiled It With The Dessert Of Remorse.