Quote #7
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
More from Karl Kraus
- The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
- War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surpr…
- Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
- Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
- An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
- I hear noises which others don't hear and which disturb for me the music of the spheres, which others don't hear either.
- Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
- Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.