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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• I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Men, Pockets

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

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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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• Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

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  Hair, Intelligence, Sake

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• Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Errors, Birth

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

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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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• The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

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  People, Use, Language

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

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• Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

  Karl Kraus

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Lord

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.117, University of Illinois Press

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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.

  Karl Kraus

  Country, Moral Corruption, Literature

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• An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

  Karl Kraus

  Ignorance, Depth, Illusion

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

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  Life, Light, Order

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

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• Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

  Karl Kraus

  Immortality, Tolerate

  "Sayings and Contradictions" by Karl Kraus, 1909.

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

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Beautiful, Writing

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• The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

  Karl Kraus

  Fire, Shells, Literature

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• The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

  Karl Kraus

  Patriotism, Unattractive, Aversion

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

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• When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

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  Religion, Atheism, Society

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• Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

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  Neighbor, Love Thy Neighbor, Thyself

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.35, University of Illinois Press

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• It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

  Karl Kraus

  Lust, Normal, Destruction

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

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• I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

  Karl Kraus

  Ideas, Language, Wells

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