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”

• 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”

• 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

• 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”

• I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Opponents, Made

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

• I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

  Karl Kraus

  Vision, Saws, Literature

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

• When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Literature, Beast

• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Doe, Literature

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

• Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Today, Patient

  Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

• Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Literature, Aphorism

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

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