Karl Kraus World Quotations

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

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

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.