Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 2

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• One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

  Karl Kraus

  Loneliness, Solitude, Needs

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

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• What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Teacher, Pupils

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

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• A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

  Karl Kraus

  Motivational, Success, Strong

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

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• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, World, Sexuality

  Die Fackel, No. 315/16, January 26, 1911.

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• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  Karl Kraus

  Sorry, Law, Abortion

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

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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Doe, Literature

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

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• Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

  Karl Kraus

  Work, Imagination, Literature

  Die Fackel, 2 July 1907

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• I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Men, Pockets

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

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• A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Lying, White

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

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• There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

  Karl Kraus

  Shoes, Sun, Settling

  BeimWort Genommen (1909) (translation by Harry Zohn)

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• Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

  Karl Kraus

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Lord

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.117, University of Illinois Press

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• 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”

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• Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

  Karl Kraus

  Feelings, Patriotism, Religion

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

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• A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.

  Karl Kraus

  Sex, Masturbation, Substitutes

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

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• I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Affair

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

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• The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

  Karl Kraus

  Women, Able, Talent

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

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• I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

  Karl Kraus

  Arrows, Opponents, Fit

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

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• A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Wine, School

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

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• So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

  Karl Kraus

  World, Occupation, Causes

  "Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.

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• We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Sacrifice, May

  "In These Great Times". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, p. 74, 1976.

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• Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

  Karl Kraus

  Hair, Intelligence, Sake

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• I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

  Karl Kraus

  Disappointment, Views, Perspective

  "Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.

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• Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

  Karl Kraus

  Newspapers, Fortune, Metaphysics

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

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• Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

  Karl Kraus

  What Matters, Sound, Opinion

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

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• How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

  Karl Kraus

  Funny, War, Lying

  Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

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