333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

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

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.