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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
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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 either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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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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So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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