Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 3

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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.

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  Effort, Causes, Life Is

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

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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.

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  Loneliness, Solitude, Needs

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

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• A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

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  Journalism, Prophet, Historian

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

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• I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

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  Arrows, Opponents, Fit

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

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• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

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  Education, Learning, Advice

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• Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

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  Passion, Giving, Emotion

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

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• The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

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  Cities, Vienna, Culture

  Jonathan Franzen, Karl Kraus (2013). “The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

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  Writing, Skills, Ideas

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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.

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  Education, Men, Pockets

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

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• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

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  Mother, Language

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

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• Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

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  Time, Reading, Book

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• When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

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  Believe, Sleep, Insomnia

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

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• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

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  Literature, World, Sexuality

  Die Fackel, No. 315/16, January 26, 1911.

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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 difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

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  Differences, People, Madness

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

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• Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

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  Time, People, Democracy

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

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• If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.

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  Police, Stealing, Psychologist

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

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• I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

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  Disappointment, Views, Perspective

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

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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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• A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

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  Art, Boredom, Looks

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

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• A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.

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  Sex, Masturbation, Substitutes

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

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• Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

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  Men, Language, Endless

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

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• Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

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  Marriage, Animal, Law

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

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• Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?

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  Hate, Humanity, Tears

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

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