Author: Karl Kraus

Quotes

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

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

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

- Karl Kraus

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

- 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

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

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

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

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

- Karl Kraus

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

- Karl Kraus

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