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

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

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

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

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

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When...

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When...

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden

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...

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...

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation...

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation...

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...

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

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;...

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

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

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.

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;...

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...

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves

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

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

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

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

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails...

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails...

Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of mind's creativity

Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of mind's creativity