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• Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

  Karl Kraus

  Time, People, Democracy

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

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• One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

  Karl Kraus

  Doctors, Disease, Diagnosis

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

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• A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Sick, Erotic

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

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• Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

  Karl Kraus

  Time, Reading, Book

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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Skills, Ideas

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• Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

  Karl Kraus

  Law, Wish, Desire

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

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• Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

  Karl Kraus

  Baby, Morality, Tendencies

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

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• There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

  Karl Kraus

  Two, Twenties, Needs

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

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• When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

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  Religion, Atheism, Society

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• Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

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  Morning, Up Early, Stupidity

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• 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

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• If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

  Karl Kraus

  Friendship, Dream, Wish

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

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• There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

  Karl Kraus

  Thinking, Important, Trying

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

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• Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

  Karl Kraus

  Rabbits, Wanted, Psychoanalysis

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

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• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

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  Life, Beautiful, Writing

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• Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Today, Patient

  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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• The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

  Karl Kraus

  World, Prison, Solitary

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

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• Medicine: "Your money and your life!

  Karl Kraus

  Money, Medicine

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.152, Syracuse University Press

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• A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

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  Writing, Numbers, Doe

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

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• Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.

  Karl Kraus

  Airplane, Psychology, Bus

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

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• He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

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  Life, Sleep, Half

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• Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

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  Mean, Nuts, Feet

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• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Learning, Advice

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• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Consciousness, Psychologist

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.106, Syracuse University Press

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• If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

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  Trust, Mean, Vain

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

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