Karl Kraus: Quotes about love

Karl Kraus was Czech playwright and publicist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
Karl Kraus: 188   quotes 5   likes

“Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.”

Karl Kraus

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Love , Hate , Personality

“A "seducer" who boasts of initiating women into the mystery of love is like a stranger who arrives at a railroad station and offers to show the sights to a tourist guide.”

Karl Kraus

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Love , Women

“What is my love? That I amalgamate the bad features of a woman into a good picture. And my hatred? That I see the bad features in the picture of a bad man.”

Karl Kraus

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Love

“The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.”

Karl Kraus

Die Fackel no. 406/12 (5 October 1915)
Die Fackel

Love , Life , Beauty

“The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.”

Karl Kraus

“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), p. 74

Love , Art , Freedom

“Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.”

Karl Kraus

Beim Wort genommen (1955); as translated by Harry Zohn

Love , Making love , Beauty , Art