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Karl Kraus

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Quotations by Karl Kraus (April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1935) | writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet


Decisions
by Karl Kraus

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

Education
by Karl Kraus

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

Wisdom
by Karl Kraus

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

Morals
by Karl Kraus

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

Irony
by Karl Kraus

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Devil
by Karl Kraus

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


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