Karl Kraus may refer to:
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
I am not for women but against men.
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.
When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.