Quote

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

Karl Kraus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Jicin
School
Concocted
Without
Alcoholic
Must
Alcoholics
Grades
Drunk
Wine
Education
Someone

More quotes by Karl Kraus

Image
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
Karl Kraus
Image
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus
Image
What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
Karl Kraus
Image
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
Karl Kraus
Image
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
Karl Kraus
Image
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Karl Kraus
Image
If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator.
Karl Kraus
Image
In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
Karl Kraus
Image
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus
Image
A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
Karl Kraus
Image
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.
Karl Kraus
Image
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
Karl Kraus
Image
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
Karl Kraus
Image
If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
Karl Kraus
Image
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
Karl Kraus
Image
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
Karl Kraus
Image
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.
Karl Kraus
Image
A cigar, said the altruist, a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around mine is always lit.
Karl Kraus
Image
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
Karl Kraus
Image
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus