Karl Kraus , Austrian writer

said about Civilization, Purpose, Agreement, Culture, Existence...

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"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former."
- Karl Kraus

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