Karl Kraus Quotes

• One ought to acknowledge the significance for mankind of the simultaneous invention of gunpowder and printer’s ink.

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• A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

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• The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

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• Why didn’t Eternity have this deformed age aborted? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer’s ink, and in its veins flows ink.

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• Today’s literature: prescriptions written by patients.

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• War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

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• How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

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

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• Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone’s slave.

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• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

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• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

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• Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.

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• The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

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• The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

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• Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

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• Female personality is insubstantiality ennobled by unconsciousness.

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• How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

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• Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden.

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• I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don’t say what it wants to hear.

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• The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

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Karl Kraus (78)

Birth:	28th April, 1874
Death:	12th June, 1936
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Writer, Journalist

About

Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He is considered the first major European satirist since Jonathan Swift. He directed his satire to the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics.

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• 1959 - Max Baer
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