Quotes by austrian authors

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. Karl Kraus

Martyrdom Matrimony Meanness Union

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. Karl Kraus

Old Style Console Ability Something Something New Idealism New Loss Itself

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

Education Few Possess Most Pass Many Receive

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. Karl Kraus

You Action Idea How Surprised Often Translate Hard

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. Karl Kraus

Christian Lust Follow Morality Remorse Precede Then

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

Me More Becomes Am Than Anyone Who Popular

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. Karl Kraus

World Sexuality Some Well Families Repressed Poorly Whole

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. Karl Kraus

Me Men Everywhere Equal Contempt Same Them

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

Vision Walk Saw Open Had Terrible Him Encyclopedia Up

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. Karl Kraus

Like Affairs Private Meddle

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. Karl Kraus

Feeling Birth Oneself Idea Catching Legitimate

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. Karl Kraus

Police Scandal Put Begins Stop

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. Karl Kraus

Nothing Say Something Write Journalists Because

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! Karl Kraus

Man Woman Heart World Fine His Which Fulfilling Desire

It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice. Karl Landsteiner

You Advice Consider Possibility Out Kind Would Idea Prospect Since Attractive Pasadena Very Hold Which Working Your Certainly Cooperation

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms. Karl Landsteiner

Constitution Long Living Difficulty Way Characteristics High Determined Having Weight Long Way Principal Proteins Chemical Dealing Still Owing Substances Regarded Which Organisms Molecular Living Organisms

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. Karl Popper

Technology Engineering Physical Beyond Province Ends Regarding Social Social Engineering Resembles

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. Karl von Frisch

First Philosophy Exams Faculty Studied After Vienna Switched Munich Zoology

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910. Karl von Frisch

Doctorate Vienna Received University

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. Karl von Frisch

School Medicine Later Faculty Studied Grammar Grammar School Vienna University

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold. Klemens von Metternich

Cold Paris Europe