Karl Kraus
Austria
28 Apr 1874 // 12 Jun 1936
Writer / Journalist
28 Apr 1874 // 12 Jun 1936
Writer / Journalist
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis
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
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays