A biography for Karl Kraushasn’t been written yet.
“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.”
“Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.”
“Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.”
“The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.”
“Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.”
“I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.”
“Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.”
“An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.”
“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.”
“The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.”
“Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.”
“Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.”
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.”
“Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.”
“The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.”
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.”
“No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.”
“There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.”
“I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.”
“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.”