Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 7

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• Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

  Karl Kraus

  Hands, Mouths, Second Hand

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• Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

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  Truth, Errors, Birth

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

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• The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

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  Broken, Triumph, Thieves

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• One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

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  Dirty, Home, Psychology

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

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• The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

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  Mirrors, Looks, World

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• This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

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  Art, Writing, Character

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

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• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

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  Lying, Imagination, Journalism

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• My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

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  Respect, Dimensions, Size

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

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• A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

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  History, Historian, Backwards

  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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• Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

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  Advice, Neighbor, Better Yourself

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

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• I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

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  Book, Reading, Butterfly

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

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• Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

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  Pain, Anesthesia, Without Pain

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.42, University of Illinois Press

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• The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

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  Real, Goes On, World

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

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• The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

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  Women, Triumph, Morality

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

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• The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

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  Media, Achievement, Desire

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• To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

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  Miracle, Flight, Stills

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

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• Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

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  Mean, Political, Prostitution

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

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• To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

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  Essence, Ideas, Able

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• Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

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  Jealousy, Dog, Thieves

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

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• Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

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  Nature, Air, People

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• Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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  Police, Literature, Scandal

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

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• Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

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  Mother, Speech, Handmaids

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• Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

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  Literature, Want, Ideals

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.23, University of Illinois Press

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• Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

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  Satire, Censored

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• Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

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  Gratitude, Ingratitude

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

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