Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 4

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• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Beautiful, Writing

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• We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Sacrifice, May

  "In These Great Times". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, p. 74, 1976.

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• If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

  Karl Kraus

  Trust, Mean, Vain

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

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• Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

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  People, Sick, Proud

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

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• A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

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  Book, Literature, Geography

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

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• There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

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  Two, Twenties, Needs

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

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• Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

  Karl Kraus

  Rabbits, Wanted, Psychoanalysis

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

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• A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

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  Education, Wine, School

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

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• Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Today, Patient

  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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• In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

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  Vienna, Berlin, Serious

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• To be human is erroneous.

  Karl Kraus

  Errors, Humanity, Humans

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

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

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  Culture, Attention, Literature

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Science, Light

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

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• If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

  Karl Kraus

  Friendship, Dream, Wish

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

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• Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

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  Country, Ties, Patriotism

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

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• There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

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  Thinking, Important, Trying

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

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• Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

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  Mean, Nuts, Feet

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• The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

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  Life, Order, Sound

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• A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

  Karl Kraus

  Knows

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

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• I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

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  Literature, Affair

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

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• A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

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  Writing, Numbers, Doe

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

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• Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Mental Illness, Cures

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• Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

  Karl Kraus

  Cancer, Decision, Suffering

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

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• You don't even live once.

  Karl Kraus

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

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

  Karl Kraus

  Passion, Giving, Emotion

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

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