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

Quote by Karl Kraus

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Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

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.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them...

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them...

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.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love

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

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

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation...

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation...

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a...

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a...

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise...

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise...

In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I...

In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I...

Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.

Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.