Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 11

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• It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

  Karl Kraus

  Believe, Heroic Deeds, Religion

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

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• Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Littles, Satire

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

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• Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

  Karl Kraus

  Greek, Age, Boyhood

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

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

  Karl Kraus

  Beautiful, Art, Atheism

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

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• A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

  Karl Kraus

  Pain, Father, Pride

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

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• 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”

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• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

  Karl Kraus

  Justice, Criminals, Human Nature

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

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• A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

  Karl Kraus

  Criticism, Abbreviations, Artistic

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• Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Fear, Father

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

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• That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

  Karl Kraus

  Cheating, Humility, Doe

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

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• Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

  Karl Kraus

  Freedom, Cells, Austria

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

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• When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

  Karl Kraus

  Fate, Remember, Happens

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

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• I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

  Karl Kraus

  Conversation, Dialogue, Monologues

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

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