333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.