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

Quote by Karl Kraus

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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.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

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;...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for...

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for...