Karl Kraus Quotes
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work. It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor. Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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