Author: Karl Kraus

Quotes

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

- Karl Kraus

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

- Karl Kraus

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

- Karl Kraus

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

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

- Karl Kraus

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

- Karl Kraus

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

- Karl Kraus

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

- Karl Kraus

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

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

- Karl Kraus

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

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

- Karl Kraus

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