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Karl Kraus Quotes

Austrian - Writer | April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936

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

Culture Mission Attention Spread

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

Fire Trouble Shells Germans Them

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Science Art Light Analysis Synthesis

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Education Wise Prove Idiots Foolish

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

Vision Walk Him Open Up Saw

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

Man Beast Human Only Like He

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Opportunity Will Praise Without Own

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Lie War World Believe See Print

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Therapy Mental Illness Illness Mental

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Wisdom Experience Savings Inheritance

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

More Consciousness Knows Than His

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Child Short Never Pants Out Ideals

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