The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
More Quotes from Karl Kraus:
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.Karl Kraus
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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An aphorism can never be the whole truth it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
Karl Kraus
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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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
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
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