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Karl Kraus


Austrian
April 28, 1874
Writer
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.


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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.


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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.


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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.


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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.


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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.


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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.


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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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