333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?