The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

Karl Kraus

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

Karl Kraus

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Karl Kraus

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Karl Kraus

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

Karl Kraus

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

Karl Kraus

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

Karl Kraus