Karl Kraus Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Solitude, Would Be

• Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

  Karl Kraus

  Work, Imagination, Literature

  Die Fackel, 2 July 1907

• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

  Karl Kraus

  Country, Moral Corruption, Literature

• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Skills, Ideas

• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  Karl Kraus

  Boredom, Literature, Disease

  "Karl Kraus". Book by Harry Zohn, p. 47, 1971.

• Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Mental Illness, Cures

• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, World, Sexuality

  Die Fackel, No. 315/16, January 26, 1911.

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Literature, Journalist

• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  Karl Kraus

  Opportunity, Ethos, Literature

• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  Karl Kraus

  Girl, Sex, Children

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

  Karl Kraus

  Song, Popular Song, Literature

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

• The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

  Karl Kraus

  Distance, Long, Looks

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

• There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

  Karl Kraus

  Justice, Diversity, People

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

• I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Affair

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Want, Ideals

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.23, University of Illinois Press

• To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Literature, Equal

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Consciousness, Psychologist

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.106, Syracuse University Press

• No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

  Karl Kraus

  Hilarious, Ideas, Literature

  "Unspeakable but readable" by Ian Mayes, www.theguardian.com. August 27. 2004.

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

  Karl Kraus

  Time, People, Democracy

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

• Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

  Karl Kraus

  Police, Literature, Scandal

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

• 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

• A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

  Karl Kraus

  Book, Literature, Geography

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  Karl Kraus

  Heart, Men, Desire

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

  Karl Kraus

  Fire, Shells, Literature

• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Ideas, Feelings

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

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