Quote #28
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
More from Karl Kraus
- I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
- 'It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.'
- How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
- Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
- Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
- Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone: . He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself digs deep hears him.
- Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
- Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.