Quotes About Karl Kraus

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.

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

The contempt for what the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus called Bürokretinismus served further to undermine public confidence in their government.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

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

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

There are two kinds of writers. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.