It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it. Karl Kraus More Quotes by Karl Kraus More Quotes From Karl Kraus Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure Karl Kraus mental-illness cures literature The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result. Karl Kraus atrocities real lying News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off. Karl Kraus men two people Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. Karl Kraus hate might men The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. Karl Kraus distance long looks An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. Karl Kraus aphorism half truth Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well. Karl Kraus dignity sin father Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest. Karl Kraus shade imagination tree I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. Karl Kraus popular-song literature song If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush. Karl Kraus adults blow children Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain. Karl Kraus vain duty artist I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning. Karl Kraus burning long looks I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. Karl Kraus saws vision literature Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. Karl Kraus german-language littles today I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. Karl Kraus affair literature Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Karl Kraus agreement civilization mean War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. Karl Kraus hope war peace A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time Karl Kraus deadline writing time Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace. Karl Kraus atheism beautiful art Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do! Karl Kraus forgiveness forgiving lord
