Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 9

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• A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.

  Karl Kraus

  Memories, Vanity, Objectivity

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

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• Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

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  Age, Talent, Preserves

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

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• I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

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  Long, Burning, Looks

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• There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

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  Clerks, Journalism, Shortage

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

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• The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

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  Perseverance, Opportunity, Reality

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• A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

  Karl Kraus

  Might, Praise, Snob

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• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Ideas, Feelings

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

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• The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

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  Art, Fire, Acting

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

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• The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

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  Real, Goes On, World

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

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• In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

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  Dark, Doe, Actors

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

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• The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Weakness, Dogma

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.114, Syracuse University Press

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• The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

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  Media, Achievement, Desire

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• News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Two, People

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• An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

  Karl Kraus

  Artist, Symphony, Lord

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

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• Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

  Karl Kraus

  Ideas, Splitting

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• "A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Light, Giving

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

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• Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

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  Thieves, Victim, Valuable

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

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• Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Want, Ideals

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.23, University of Illinois Press

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• It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

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  Ideas, People, Opinion

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

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• Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

  Karl Kraus

  Gratitude, Ingratitude

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

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• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Pants, Short Pants

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• Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

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  Psychology, Poison, Useless

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

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• Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

  Karl Kraus

  Satire, Censored

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• Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

  Karl Kraus

  Fleeing, Satire, Arise

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

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• The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

  Karl Kraus

  Distance, Long, Looks

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

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