Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. Karl Kraus More Quotes by Karl Kraus More Quotes From Karl Kraus Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. Karl Kraus cancer decision suffering A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. Karl Kraus short-pants pants children Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting. Karl Kraus splitting ideas There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes. Karl Kraus clothes soul-and-body two One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long. Karl Kraus aphorism long A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head. Karl Kraus empty deals emptiness I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head. Karl Kraus pockets education men Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. Karl Kraus ironic moon dog A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. Karl Kraus masturbation substitutes sex He who sleeps half a day has won half a life. Karl Kraus half sleep life Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them. Karl Kraus truth-is philosophical break Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. Karl Kraus criminals human-nature justice The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women. Karl Kraus triumph morality women Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater. Karl Kraus tendencies morality baby 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. Karl Kraus fighting winning war Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair. Karl Kraus intelligence sake hair A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. Karl Kraus historian prophet journalism I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education. Karl Kraus pride reading education What the teachers digest, the pupils eat. Karl Kraus pupils education teacher Family life is an encroachment on private life. Karl Kraus privacy family life
