Karl Kraus Quotes

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

The possession of knowledge has always been dangerous.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

Medication without explanation is obscene.

So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

Never try to put all the chemicals in the entire world in your body at the same time.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.

Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.