There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

Quote by Karl Kraus

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

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...

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...

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...