Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 11

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

  Karl Kraus

  Heart, Men, Desire

  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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• 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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• 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.

  Karl Kraus

  Mirrors, Self, Hands

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

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

  Karl Kraus

  Freedom, Cells, Austria

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

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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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• 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.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Littles, Satire

  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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• 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.

  Karl Kraus

  Cheating, Humility, Doe

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

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