The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
From Karl Kraus
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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