Quote

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

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
Constrictor
Swallowed
Rabbit
Psychoanalysis
Rabbits
Wanted
Like

More quotes by Karl Kraus

Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
Karl Kraus
Image
Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
Karl Kraus
Image
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Karl Kraus
Image
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
Image
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Karl Kraus
Image
Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
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
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
Karl Kraus
Image
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
Karl Kraus
Image
When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
Karl Kraus
Image
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
Karl Kraus
Image
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
Karl Kraus
Image
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
Karl Kraus
Image
Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
Karl Kraus
Image
On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
Karl Kraus
Image
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
Karl Kraus
Image
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
Karl Kraus
Image
The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
Karl Kraus
Image
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Karl Kraus
Image
You don't even live once.
Karl Kraus