Karl Kraus

Quotes

• “Everyone is stopped and waiting, maitre d's, hansom cab drivers and governments. Everyone's waiting for the end. Let's hope the apocalypse is pleasant, Your Highness.”
• “There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.”
• “What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory?”
• “Der Fortschritt feiert Pyrrhussiege über die Natur.”
• “Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.”
• “Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.”

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