The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

Quote by Karl Kraus

Topics: Karl Kraus Quotes

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order...

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order...

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...

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...

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

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

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

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...

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.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden

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...

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

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

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they...

Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they...

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go...

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go...