333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won’t bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Progress makes purses out of human skin.

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

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

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer

Psychoanalysis, a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.