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

Quote by Karl Kraus

Topics: Trouble Quotes

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted...

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted...

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...

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

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...

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

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

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

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.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same...

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same...

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have...

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have...

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel...

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel...

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But...

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But...

All experience is an arch where through gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for...

All experience is an arch where through gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for...

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.