Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 6

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• When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.

  Karl Kraus

  Wall, Writing, Progress

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

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• It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.

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  Uplifting, Reality, Looks

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• There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

  Karl Kraus

  Justice, Diversity, People

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

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• Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

  Karl Kraus

  Dream, Sleep, Men

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

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• It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

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  Half, Half Truth

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.157, Syracuse University Press

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• Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

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  Art, Art Is, Clear

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• You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

  Karl Kraus

  Often Is, Ideas, Action

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

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• The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

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  Broken, Triumph, Thieves

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• I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

  Karl Kraus

  Ideas, Language, Wells

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• Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Errors, Birth

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

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• The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

  Karl Kraus

  Mirrors, Looks, World

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• My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

  Karl Kraus

  Respect, Dimensions, Size

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

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• A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

  Karl Kraus

  History, Historian, Backwards

  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 mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  Karl Kraus

  Culture, Attention, Literature

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

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• Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

  Karl Kraus

  Passion, Epic, Masculine And Feminine

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• Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

  Karl Kraus

  Advice, Neighbor, Better Yourself

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

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• The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

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  Women, Triumph, Morality

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

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• This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Writing, Character

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

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• Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Mental Illness, Cures

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• One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

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  Dirty, Home, Psychology

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

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• Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Political, Prostitution

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

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• Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

  Karl Kraus

  Censorship, Satire, Forbidden

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• To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

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  Essence, Ideas, Able

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• The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.

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  Art, Three, Entertainment

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

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• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

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  Lying, Imagination, Journalism

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