333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

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

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

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

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.