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

Quote by Karl Kraus

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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose...

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose...

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

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

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

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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...

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...

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...

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

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I...

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I...

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

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

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

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

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

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

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the...

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe...

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe...