Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 5

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• 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”

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• An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

  Karl Kraus

  Ignorance, Depth, Illusion

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

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

  Karl Kraus

  Language, Source

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• My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Writing, Request

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

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• The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

  Karl Kraus

  Communication, Eye, Dumb

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

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• Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Sick, Proud

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

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• A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

  Karl Kraus

  Emptiness, Empty, Deals

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• Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Writing, Erotic

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• It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

  Karl Kraus

  Women

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

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• The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Ideals, Premature

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

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• To be human is erroneous.

  Karl Kraus

  Errors, Humanity, Humans

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

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• Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

  Karl Kraus

  Neighbor, Love Thy Neighbor, Thyself

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.35, University of Illinois Press

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• Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

  Karl Kraus

  Sex, Law, Pimples

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

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• Talent is often a defect in character.

  Karl Kraus

  Character, Talent, Defects

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• What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Light, Order

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

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• Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.

  Karl Kraus

  Dirty, Humanity, Tears

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

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• The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

  Karl Kraus

  Patriotism, Unattractive, Aversion

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

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• The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

  Karl Kraus

  Lying, Hero, People

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• It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

  Karl Kraus

  Lust, Normal, Destruction

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

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• A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

  Karl Kraus

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.9, University of Illinois Press

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• If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Business, Asking

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

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• Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

  Karl Kraus

  Communication, Italian, August

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

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• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  Karl Kraus

  Opportunity, Ethos, Literature

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• Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

  Karl Kraus

  Music, Technology, Noise

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

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• One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Kind, Wells

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

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