Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 4

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• 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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• The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Order, Sound

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• A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Boredom, Looks

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

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• Family life is an encroachment on private life.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Family, Privacy

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

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• The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

  Karl Kraus

  Differences, People, Madness

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

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• Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

  Karl Kraus

  Immortality, Tolerate

  "Sayings and Contradictions" by Karl Kraus, 1909.

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• Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

  Karl Kraus

  Philosophical, Truth Is, Break

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

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• A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

  Karl Kraus

  Book, Literature, Geography

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

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• Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

  Karl Kraus

  Marriage, Animal, Law

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

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• Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?

  Karl Kraus

  Hate, Humanity, Tears

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

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• You don't even live once.

  Karl Kraus

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

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• Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

  Karl Kraus

  Women, Cosmos, Cosmetics

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

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Science, Light

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

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• The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

  Karl Kraus

  Nature, Technology, Development

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

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• Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

  Karl Kraus

  Games, Chess, Diplomacy

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

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• Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

  Karl Kraus

  Marriage, Society, Literature

  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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• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Army, Play

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

  Karl Kraus

  Believe, Sleep, Insomnia

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

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• A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Potassium, Cyanide

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

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• 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”

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• A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

  Karl Kraus

  Knows

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

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• Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

  Karl Kraus

  Christian, Lust, Morality

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

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• Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

  Karl Kraus

  Effort, Causes, Life Is

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

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• In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

  Karl Kraus

  Vienna, Berlin, Serious

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• If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.

  Karl Kraus

  Police, Stealing, Psychologist

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

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