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Karl Kraus

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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.


— Karl Kraus


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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.


— Karl Kraus


#imagination #killed #lies #life #our

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.


— Karl Kraus


#make #out #riddle #someone #who

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?


— Karl Kraus


#makes #play #sense #soldier #soldiers

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.


— Karl Kraus


#poorly #repressed #sexuality #some #well

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.


— Karl Kraus


#itself #mental #mental illness #psychoanalysis #regards

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.


— Karl Kraus


#any #deadline #express #ideas #improved

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.


— Karl Kraus


#aside #cannot #exhaust #experiences #inheritance

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.


— Karl Kraus


#police #put #scandal #stop

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.


— Karl Kraus


#i #like #meddle #private






About Karl Kraus






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His friendship with Peter Altenberg began about this time. To the numerous enemies he made due to the inflexibility and intensity of his partisanship however he was a bitter misanthrope and poor would-be (Alfred Kerr). Person
Karl Kraus was a subject of controversy throughout his lifetime.

Karl Kraus (April 28 1874 – June 12 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist known as a satirist essayist aphorist playwright and poet. For the theologian see Karl Christian Friedrich Krause.

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