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A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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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.
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When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
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Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
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The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
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It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
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I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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An aphorism is never exactly true it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
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An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
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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.
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