I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak. Karl Kraus More Quotes by Karl Kraus More Quotes From Karl Kraus Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed. Karl Kraus tolerate immortality The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on. Karl Kraus real goes-on world What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. Karl Kraus light life order When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human. Karl Kraus beast literature men The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. Karl Kraus madness differences people Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language. Karl Kraus patriotism ties country It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half. Karl Kraus half-truth half Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life. Karl Kraus education doors children This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character. Karl Kraus writing character art The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory. Karl Kraus dogma weakness art 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. Karl Kraus achievement media desire Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. Karl Kraus metaphysics newspapers fortune A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality. Karl Kraus sexuality men The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man. Karl Kraus premature ideals men The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. Karl Kraus patriotism aversion unattractive If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work. Karl Kraus business asking art My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions. Karl Kraus size respect dimensions Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves. Karl Kraus enlightenment curiosity people The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt. Karl Kraus vienna cities culture The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original. Karl Kraus mirrors looks world
