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• To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Literature, Equal

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

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• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  Karl Kraus

  Boredom, Literature, Disease

  "Karl Kraus". Book by Harry Zohn, p. 47, 1971.

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• What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Teacher, Pupils

  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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• War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

  Karl Kraus

  War, Fighting, Winning

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.153, Syracuse University Press

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• Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

  Karl Kraus

  Newspapers, Fortune, Metaphysics

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

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• Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

  Karl Kraus

  Feelings, Patriotism, Religion

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

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• A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Sick, Erotic

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

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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Doe, Literature

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

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• Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

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

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• Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.

  Karl Kraus

  Airplane, Psychology, Bus

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

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• The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

  Karl Kraus

  World, Prison, Solitary

  "Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.

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• The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

  Karl Kraus

  Women, Able, Talent

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

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• They judge lest they be judged.

  Karl Kraus

  Judging, Morality, Judged

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

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• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  Karl Kraus

  Sorry, Law, Abortion

  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.

  Karl Kraus

  Motivational, Success, Strong

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

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• Family life is an encroachment on private life.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Family, Privacy

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

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• A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Lying, White

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

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• There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

  Karl Kraus

  Shoes, Sun, Settling

  BeimWort Genommen (1909) (translation by Harry Zohn)

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• How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

  Karl Kraus

  Funny, War, Lying

  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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• Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

  Karl Kraus

  Baby, Morality, Tendencies

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

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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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• Medicine: "Your money and your life!

  Karl Kraus

  Money, Medicine

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.152, Syracuse University Press

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

  Karl Kraus

  Hair, Intelligence, Sake

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• Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

  Karl Kraus

  Effort, Causes, Life Is

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

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