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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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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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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
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Most people only do what they are asked to do success comes to those who do a little more.
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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 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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The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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