Karl Kraus Quotes
1874–1936 Austria
Karl Kraus (28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936) was an Austrian journalist, satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet.
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Also known as: Karl Kraus, Kraus, Karl
93 quotes
An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
The psychiatrist unfailingly recognizes the madman by his excited behavior on being incarcerated.
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
Today’s literature is prescriptions written by patients.
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays.
Squeeze human nature into a straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear!
Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Kraus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.