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

Quote by Karl Kraus

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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.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

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.

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...

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it...

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it...

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old...

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old...

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...

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.