Quote #30
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
More from Karl Kraus
- 'It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.'
- Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone: . He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself digs deep hears him.
- 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.
- Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
- I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
- Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
- How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
- No ideas and the ability to express them- that's a journalist.