Karl Kraus Quotes
Most popular Karl Kraus Quotes
Art serves to rinse out our eyes.
Family life is an encroachment on private life.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light syntheses.
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while cleaning them.
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
An aphorism need not be true, but it should surpass the truth. It must go beyond it with one leap.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
'A cigar,' said the altruist, 'a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.'
