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

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
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So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
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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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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
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Medicine: Your money and your life!
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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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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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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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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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It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
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The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
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