333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure