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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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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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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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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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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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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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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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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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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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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.
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I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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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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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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