Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 7

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• To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

  Karl Kraus

  Miracle, Flight, Stills

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

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• The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

  Karl Kraus

  Pride, Proud, Littles

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• Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

  Karl Kraus

  Nature, Air, People

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• Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

  Karl Kraus

  Mother, Speech, Handmaids

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• Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

  Karl Kraus

  Imagination, Tree, Shade

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

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• A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

  Karl Kraus

  Journalism, Prophet, Historian

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

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• My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

  Karl Kraus

  Common, Language, Turns

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

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• Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

  Karl Kraus

  Father, Dignity, Sin

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• It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

  Karl Kraus

  Journalism, Missions, Intellect

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

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• Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

  Karl Kraus

  Artist, Vain, Duty

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

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• Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

  Karl Kraus

  Police, Literature, Scandal

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

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• I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

  Karl Kraus

  Song, Popular Song, Literature

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

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• The real truths are those that can be invented.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Real, Real Truth

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

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• I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Reading, Pride

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

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• A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

  Karl Kraus

  Plagiarism, Hundred, Made

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

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• They judge lest they be judged.

  Karl Kraus

  Judging, Morality, Judged

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

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• In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.

  Karl Kraus

  Knowledge, Stupidity, Rooms

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

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• Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

  Karl Kraus

  Passion, Giving, Emotion

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

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• To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Writing, May

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

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• Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Literature, Aphorism

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

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• Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

  Karl Kraus

  Dog, Moon, Ironic

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

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• Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Enough, Greetings

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

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• One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

  Karl Kraus

  Long, Aphorism

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

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• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  Karl Kraus

  Boredom, Literature, Disease

  "Karl Kraus". Book by Harry Zohn, p. 47, 1971.

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• The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

  Karl Kraus

  Father, Example, Causes

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