Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 10

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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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• What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

  Karl Kraus

  Sex, Excess, Surrender

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

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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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• I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Opponents, Made

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

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• I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

  Karl Kraus

  Vision, Saws, Literature

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

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• If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Blow, Adults

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• The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

  Karl Kraus

  Dream, Pockets, Psychoanalysis

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.105, Syracuse University Press

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• In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

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  Running, Years, Cleaning

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

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• Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Criticism, Critics

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

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• A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

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  Jealousy, Sex, Men

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

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• I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

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  Heads Or Tails, Style, Firsts

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

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• Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.

  Karl Kraus

  Palpitation, Blushing, Havens

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

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• Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

  Karl Kraus

  German Language, Littles, Today

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

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• I am not for women but against men.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Men And Women

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

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• How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

  Karl Kraus

  Powerful, Lying, Volcanoes

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.24, University of Illinois Press

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• When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

  Karl Kraus

  Fate, Remember, Happens

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

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• I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

  Karl Kraus

  Conversation, Dialogue, Monologues

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

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• I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

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  People, Speak, Stage

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

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• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

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  Heart, Men, Desire

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

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• A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

  Karl Kraus

  Time, Writing, Deadline

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

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• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

  Karl Kraus

  Justice, Criminals, Human Nature

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

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• Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

  Karl Kraus

  Beautiful, Art, Atheism

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

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• An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Half, Aphorism

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• One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

  Karl Kraus

  Clothes, Skins, Borders

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

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• Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

  Karl Kraus

  Erotic, Curiosity, Meals

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

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