Quotes by Kraus, Karl

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life. >>

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out o >>

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. >>

Quotations about Modern and Modernism

By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind b >>

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many mor >>

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent do >>

In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left for it in these times in which things are happening that could not be imagined and in which what can no longer be imagined must happen, for if one could imagine it, it would not happen; in these serious times which have died laughing at the thought that they might become serious; which, surprised by their own tragedy, are reaching for diversion and, catching themselves red-handed, are groping for words... in these times you should not expect any words of my own from me -- none but these words which barely manage to prevent silence from being misinterpreted.

Kraus, Karl