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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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Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
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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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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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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.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
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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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Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
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The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
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My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
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