333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.