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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• 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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• War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

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  Hope, Peace, War

  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.

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  Effort, Causes, Life Is

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

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

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  Hilarious, Ideas, Literature

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

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• Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

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  Morning, Up Early, Stupidity

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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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• Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

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  Games, Chess, Diplomacy

  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.

  Karl Kraus

  Work, Imagination, Literature

  Die Fackel, 2 July 1907

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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.

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  Men, Literature, Beast

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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.

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  Loss, Doe, Want

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

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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.

  Karl Kraus

  Loneliness, Solitude, Needs

  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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• 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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• I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

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  Style, Doe, Want

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

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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

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  Writing, Skills, Ideas

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

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  Life, Beautiful, Writing

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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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• A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

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  Art, Boredom, Looks

  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.

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  Mirrors, Looks, World

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

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Art Is, Clear

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