An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half. — Karl Kraus
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. — Karl Kraus
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. — Karl Kraus
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. — Karl Kraus
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. — Karl Kraus
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow — Karl Kraus
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the p*rnographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. — Karl Kraus
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor that just wanted to see what it was like in there. — Karl Kraus
An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. — Karl Kraus
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. — Karl Kraus
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. — Karl Kraus