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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Karl Kraus

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Karl Kraus

Education

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Karl Kraus

Passion

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

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Popular

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

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Opponents

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.

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Public

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

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Open

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

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Education

Idiots

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

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Ideals

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

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Life

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

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Opportunity

Democracy

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.