Karl Kraus Quotes

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• The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

  Karl Kraus

  Funny, Clever, Stupid

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• The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

  Karl Kraus

  Thinking, People, Devil

  "Die Fackel", no. 277/78 (March 31, 1909), translated in "Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry" by Thomas Szasz, (Ch. 8), 1970.

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• Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

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  People, Solitude, Would Be

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• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

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  Country, Moral Corruption, Literature

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• A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

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  Knows

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

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• What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

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  Education, Teacher, Pupils

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

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• Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

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  Mental Illness, Therapy, Regard

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

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• I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

  Karl Kraus

  Loss, Doe, Want

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.118, University of Illinois Press

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• To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

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  Men, Literature, Equal

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

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• There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Looks

  "'Sprüche und Widersprüche' ('Dicta and Contradictions')". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Richard Hanser, 1909.

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• I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

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  Disappointment, Views, Perspective

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

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• One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

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  Loneliness, Solitude, Needs

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

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• A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

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  Motivational, Success, Strong

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

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• Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

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  Work, Imagination, Literature

  Die Fackel, 2 July 1907

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• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

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  Life, Beautiful, Writing

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• The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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  World, Prison, Solitary

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

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• How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

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  War, Lying, Believe

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• When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Literature, Beast

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• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Consciousness, Psychologist

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.106, Syracuse University Press

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• No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

  Karl Kraus

  Hilarious, Ideas, Literature

  "Unspeakable but readable" by Ian Mayes, www.theguardian.com. August 27. 2004.

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• Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

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  Responsibility, Men, Demand

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

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• Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

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  Success, Education, Wise

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• Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

  Karl Kraus

  Time, Reading, Book

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• Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

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  Women, Cosmos, Cosmetics

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

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• Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

  Karl Kraus

  Effort, Causes, Life Is

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

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