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

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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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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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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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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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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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.
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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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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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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.
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