Famous Quotes / Karl Kraus
69 Quotations by Karl Kraus
- 41. Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.
- 42. Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
- 43. Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
- 44. Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
- 45. Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
- 46. Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
- 47. Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come in ...
- 48. Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
- 49. Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
- 50. Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
- 51. Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
- 52. The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
- 53. The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wage ...
- 54. The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politi ...
- 55. The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
- 56. The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
- 57. The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achi ...
- 58. The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
- 59. The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has st ...
- 60. The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the wea ...