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• How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

  Karl Kraus

  Faithful, Today, Tomorrow

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

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• Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

  Karl Kraus

  Hate, Men, Might

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• The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Beauty, Politician

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.155, Syracuse University Press

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• Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

  Karl Kraus

  Pain, Anesthesia, Without Pain

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.42, University of Illinois Press

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• Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.

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  Views, Agreement, Share

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

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• Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Space, Earth

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

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• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  Karl Kraus

  Girl, Sex, Children

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

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• Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

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  Lying, Merit, Tools

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

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• Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

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  Music, Ocean, Style

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

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• The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

  Karl Kraus

  Artist

  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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• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

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  Writing, Literature, Journalist

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• On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

  Karl Kraus

  Personality, Acting, Actors

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

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• The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

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  Pimp, Morality, Organs

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

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• The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.

  Karl Kraus

  Real, Lying, Atrocities

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• What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Enough, Historian

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

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• Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

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  Cancer, Decision, Suffering

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

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• Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

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  People, Curiosity, Enlightenment

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

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• Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

  Karl Kraus

  Hands, Mouths, Second Hand

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• It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

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  Loss, Style, Something New

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• My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Thinking, Waiting

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

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• Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Children, Doors

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• A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Sexuality

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

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• Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

  Karl Kraus

  Jealousy, Dog, Thieves

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

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• I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

  Karl Kraus

  Book, Reading, Butterfly

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

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• If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

  Karl Kraus

  Doe, Paper, Information

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