Karl Kraus may refer to:
In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.
Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.