The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl KrausCulture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
Karl KrausWhat torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
Karl Kraus