Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Quote by Karl Kraus

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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity...

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity...

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they...

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they...

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

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

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...

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.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which...

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which...

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.

Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of...

Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of...

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about...

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about...

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...

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I...

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I...

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

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.

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

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

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

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

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day;...

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day;...

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

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

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

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

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.