Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 5

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• Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

  Karl Kraus

  Immortality, Tolerate

  "Sayings and Contradictions" by Karl Kraus, 1909.

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• Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

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  Women, Cosmos, Cosmetics

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

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• A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

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  Emptiness, Empty, Deals

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• The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

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  Life, Beauty, Politician

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.155, Syracuse University Press

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• A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

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  Men, Sexuality

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

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• Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

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  Games, Chess, Diplomacy

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

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• An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

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  Ignorance, Depth, Illusion

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

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• A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

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  Education, Potassium, Cyanide

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

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• He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

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  Life, Sleep, Half

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• The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

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  Nature, Technology, Development

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

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• Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

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  Marriage, Society, Literature

  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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• Talent is often a defect in character.

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  Character, Talent, Defects

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• The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

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  People, Use, Language

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

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• Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

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  Lying, Merit, Tools

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

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• The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.

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  Art, Three, Entertainment

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

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• Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

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  Christian, Lust, Morality

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

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• Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

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  Philosophical, Truth Is, Break

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

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• My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

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  Reading, Writing, Request

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

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• Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.

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  Art, Writing, Erotic

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• It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

  Karl Kraus

  Women

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

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• The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

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  Communication, Eye, Dumb

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

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• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

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  Children, Army, Play

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

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• The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

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  Pride, Proud, Littles

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• Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

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  Language, Source

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• Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

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  Sex, Law, Pimples

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

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