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

Quote by Karl Kraus

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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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...

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

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...

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short...

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film...

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film...

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.