333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

To be human is erroneous.

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

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.