Karl Kraus Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

  Karl Kraus

  Common, Language, Turns

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  Karl Kraus

  Mother, Language

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

• Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Language, Endless

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

  Karl Kraus

  Style, Doe, Want

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

  Karl Kraus

  Ideas, Language, Wells

• Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

  Karl Kraus

  Language, Source

• Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

  Karl Kraus

  German Language, Littles, Today

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Use, Language

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

  Karl Kraus

  Clothes, Skins, Borders

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.

  Karl Kraus

  Wall, Writing, Progress

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

  Karl Kraus

  Country, Ties, Patriotism

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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