Famous Quotes / Karl Kraus
69 Quotations by Karl Kraus
- 1. A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
- 2. A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
- 3. A journalist is stimulated by a deadline: He writes worse when he has time.
- 4. A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
- 5. A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
- 6. A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
- 7. A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
- 8. Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Chris ...
- 9. An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
- 10. Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
- 11. Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
- 12. Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual; the fo ...
- 13. Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of exist ...
- 14. Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time ...
- 15. Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
- 16. Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
- 17. Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
- 18. Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
- 19. Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot ex ...
- 20. He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.