Quotations From KARL KRAUS

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• 221.

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

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian satirist. Sprüche und Widersprüche, ch. 4 (1909), trans. in Half-Truths and One-And-A Half-Truths, "Lord, Forgive Them ...," ed. Harry Zohn (1976).
• 222.

  To be human is erroneous.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
• 223.

  Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
  
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• 224.

  Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
• 225.

  Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian satirist. first published in Die Fackel, no. 288 (Vienna, October 11, 1909). Quoted in Thomas Szasz, Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, ch. 8 (1976).
  
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• 226.

  A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
  
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• 227.

  Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
  
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