Karl Kraus

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#art #light #science #spectral #synthesis

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#children #come #education #enough #how

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#could #ideal #people #pick #solitude

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#essays #fritter #his #should #someone

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#crime #criminal #criminal justice #human #human nature

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#closer #distance #greater #look #looks

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#attention span #culture #destroying #mission #press

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#framework #lifestyle #order #principle #sound

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#germans #kant #quotations #shells #them

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#beggar #forgive #given #having #him