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

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• Karl Kraus:

  You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

• Karl Kraus:

  Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

• Karl Kraus:

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

• Karl Kraus:

  I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

• Karl Kraus:

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

• Karl Kraus:

  To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

• Karl Kraus:

  The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations f

• Karl Kraus:

  Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

• Karl Kraus:

  I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

• Karl Kraus:

  When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast,