Frases de Karl Kraus

“Ninguna duda de que el perro es fiel. ¿Pero debemos por ello tomarlo como ejemplo? En realidad él es fiel al hombre y no a los perros.”

“Los pensadores griegos tuvieron predilección por las prostitutas. Los ejércitos alemanes no pueden vivir sin damas.”

“El secreto del agitador es hacerse tan estúpido como lo son sus oyentes con el objeto de que éstos crean que son tan listos como él.”

“La mujer participa con su sexo en todas las cosas de la vida. A veces en el amor.”

“El espejo sirve solamente a la vanidad del hombre; la mujer lo necesita para cerciorarse de su personalidad.”

“El erotismo es la superación de los obstáculos. El obstáculo más seductor y profundo es la moral.”

“¡Qué hermoso, cuando una muchacha olvida su buena educación”

“Las mujeres tienen en Oriente una mayor libertad. Pueden ser amadas.”

“Las gentes a las que el lenguaje no les sirve para nada más que para comunicarse son las que hablan de un modo más ininteligible.”

“La humanidad, la educación y la libertad. Son bienes preciosos que nunca se pagan demasiado caro, con la sangre, la inteligencia y la dignidad humanas.”

“Las instituciones humanas deben volverse tan perfectas que podamos pensar sin que nos disturbe cuán imperfectas son las divinas.”

“El psicoanálisis es aquella enfermedad mental consistente en creer que ella es su terapéutica.”

“La democracia divide a los hombres en trabajadores y perezosos. No está destinada a aquellos que no tienen tiempo para trabajar.”

“El filisteo quisiera siempre que el tiempo se le pasara. El artista lo domina”

“Los artistas tienen el derecho de ser modestos y el deber de ser vanidosos.”

“Un agitador se toma la palabra. El artista es tomado por la palabra.”

“… No creo que los italianos en el campo de la psicología femenina hayan ido más allá del conocimiento de que 'la donna è mobile'. Y si uno de ellos se atreviera a negarlo es seguro que otro le contestaría: 'Eppur si muove!”

“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.”

“Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.”

“The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back.”

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

“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.”

“The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.”

“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.”

“To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.”

“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.”

“You don't even live once.”

“Squeeze human nature into a straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear!”

“An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.”

“Nothing is more unfathomable than a woman's superficiality.”

“My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.”

“War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that the enemy too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.”

“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.”

“In one ear and out the other: this would still make the head a transit station. What I hear has to go out the same ear.”

“The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one.”

“Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.”

“One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.”

“Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.”

“One shouldn't learn more than what one absolutely needs against life.”

“A woman is, occasionally, quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure.”

“The real truths are those that can be invented.”

“Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.”

“There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.”

“A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!”

“The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.”

“There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.”