Karl Kraus

Many things that I am experiencing I already remember.

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to men, not to other dogs.

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

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.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

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.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.