Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 6

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• The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

  Karl Kraus

  Patriotism, Unattractive, Aversion

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

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• Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

  Karl Kraus

  Neighbor, Love Thy Neighbor, Thyself

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.35, University of Illinois Press

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• What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Light, Order

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

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• The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

  Karl Kraus

  Lying, Hero, People

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• There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

  Karl Kraus

  Justice, Diversity, People

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

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• It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

  Karl Kraus

  Lust, Normal, Destruction

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

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• The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Ideals, Premature

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

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• My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

  Karl Kraus

  Common, Language, Turns

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

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• If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Business, Asking

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

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• Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Art Is, Clear

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• A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

  Karl Kraus

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.9, University of Illinois Press

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• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  Karl Kraus

  Opportunity, Ethos, Literature

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• It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.

  Karl Kraus

  Uplifting, Reality, Looks

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• Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.

  Karl Kraus

  Dirty, Humanity, Tears

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

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• Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Space, Earth

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

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• One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Kind, Wells

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

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• Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

  Karl Kraus

  Music, Technology, Noise

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

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• Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

  Karl Kraus

  Dream, Sleep, Men

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

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• Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

  Karl Kraus

  Communication, Italian, August

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

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• Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

  Karl Kraus

  Censorship, Satire, Forbidden

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• When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.

  Karl Kraus

  Wall, Writing, Progress

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

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• The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

  Karl Kraus

  Father, Example, Causes

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• I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

  Karl Kraus

  Ideas, Language, Wells

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• You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

  Karl Kraus

  Often Is, Ideas, Action

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

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• Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

  Karl Kraus

  Passion, Epic, Masculine And Feminine

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