If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush. Karl Kraus More Quotes by Karl Kraus More Quotes From Karl Kraus To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs. Karl Kraus example dog men Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. Karl Kraus journalist literature writing Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. Karl Kraus mental-illness regard therapy Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. Karl Kraus force stupid earthquakes To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so. Karl Kraus flight miracle stills A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking. Karl Kraus erotic sick men Talent is often a defect in character. Karl Kraus defects talent character A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity. Karl Kraus vanity objectivity memories Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. Karl Kraus sexuality literature world One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty. Karl Kraus psychology home dirty The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember. Karl Kraus women talent able In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd. Karl Kraus actors dark doe There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal. Karl Kraus important trying thinking An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time Karl Kraus illusion depth ignorance Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there. Karl Kraus psychoanalysis rabbits wanted Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible. Karl Kraus dream sleep men Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane. Karl Kraus bus psychology airplane A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing. Karl Kraus doe writing numbers My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once. Karl Kraus request reading writing I trim my opponents to fit my arrows. Karl Kraus opponents arrows fit
