Karl Kraus Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

  Karl Kraus

  Religion, Atheism, Society

• The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

  Karl Kraus

  Cities, Vienna, Culture

  Jonathan Franzen, Karl Kraus (2013). “The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus”, p.13, Macmillan

• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Agreement, Civilization

  "In these great times" by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, ("In these great times"), 1976.

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

  Karl Kraus

  Culture, Attention, Literature

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

• There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

  Karl Kraus

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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