Karl Kraus Looks Quotations

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.