Karl Kraus Quotes

Most popular Karl Kraus Quotes

Art serves to rinse out our eyes. - Karl Kraus quote.
Art serves to rinse out our eyes.
— Karl Kraus Dicta and Contradicta

art

Family life is an encroachment on private life. - Karl Kraus quote.
Family life is an encroachment on private life.
— Karl Kraus Beim Wort Genommen

family

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light syntheses. - Karl Kraus quote.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light syntheses.
— Karl Kraus
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while cleaning them. - Karl Kraus quote.
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while cleaning them.
— Karl Kraus Karl Kraus

truth

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. - Karl Kraus quote.
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
— Karl Kraus In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader

stupidity

An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half. - Karl Kraus quote.
An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
— Karl Kraus Die Fackel

aphorisms

An aphorism need not be true, but it should surpass the truth. It must go beyond it with one leap. - Karl Kraus quote.
An aphorism need not be true, but it should surpass the truth. It must go beyond it with one leap.
— Karl Kraus Dicta and Contradicta

aphorisms

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. - Karl Kraus quote.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
— Karl Kraus

experiences

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he. - Karl Kraus quote.
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
— Karl Kraus

power

'A cigar,' said the altruist, 'a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.' - Karl Kraus quote.
'A cigar,' said the altruist, 'a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.'
— Karl Kraus

cigars Cigar