Karl Kraus

(226 votes)   The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(221 votes)   An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(212 votes)   The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(120 votes)   A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

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1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(97 votes)   The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

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1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(93 votes)   The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(80 votes)   Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

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

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(78 votes)   Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

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(78 votes)   Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

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(77 votes)   Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

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(76 votes)   A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

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(76 votes)   Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

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(74 votes)   Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

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(74 votes)   Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

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