Karl Kraus (1874 – 1936)
Austrian journalist, satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet.
Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
Nothing is more unfathomable than a woman's superficiality.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory?
Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.
Solitude would be an ideal state if one were able to pick the people one avoids.
Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
A "seducer" who boasts of initiating women into the mystery of love is like a stranger who arrives at a railroad station and offers to show the sights to a tourist guide.
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!
Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
Family life is an encroachment on private life.
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
Most writers have no other quality than the reader: taste. But the latter has the better taste, because he does not write - and the best if he does not read.
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.