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«The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner»
«The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
esthete, pornographer, pornographers, relation, relation to
«Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fortune teller, fortune tellers, tellers
«When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.»
«Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
censor, censors, forbidden, justly, Satires
«Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor that just wanted to see what it was like in there»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
boa, boa constrictor, constrictor, constrictors, rabbit, swallowed
«Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life»
«In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left for it in these times in which things are happening that could not be imagined and in which what can no longer be imagined must happen, for if one could imagine it, it would not happen; in these serious times which have died laughing at the thought that they might become serious; which, surprised by their own tragedy, are reaching for diversion and, catching themselves red-handed, are groping for words... in these times you should not expect any words of my own from me -- none but these words which barely manage to prevent silence from being misinterpreted.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
barely, catching, diversion, diversions, groped, grope for, groping, handed, happening, have died, imagined, In These Times, manage, of my own, reaching, red-handed
«He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.»
«Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.»
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