Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 11

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• Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.

  Karl Kraus

  Age, Ink, Veins

  Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

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• It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

  Karl Kraus

  Believe, Heroic Deeds, Religion

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

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• When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Writing, Acting

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

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• Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

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  Mirrors, Self, Hands

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

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• What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

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  Beautiful, Freedom, People

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

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• Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Fear, Father

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

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• Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

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  Greek, Age, Boyhood

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

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• A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

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  Pain, Father, Pride

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

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• A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

  Karl Kraus

  Criticism, Abbreviations, Artistic

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• That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

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  Cheating, Humility, Doe

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

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• Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

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  Freedom, Cells, Austria

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

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• Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

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  People, Littles, Satire

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

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• To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

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  Perfect One, Perfect, Defects

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