Karl Kraus may refer to:
In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.
How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Talent is often a defect in character.
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.