Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 8

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• Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

  Karl Kraus

  Satire, Censored

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• Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

  Karl Kraus

  Imagination, Tree, Shade

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

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• Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

  Karl Kraus

  Father, Dignity, Sin

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• It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

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  Journalism, Missions, Intellect

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

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• Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

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  Artist, Vain, Duty

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

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• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

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  Mean, Agreement, Civilization

  "In these great times" by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, ("In these great times"), 1976.

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• I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

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  Song, Popular Song, Literature

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

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• The real truths are those that can be invented.

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  Truth, Real, Real Truth

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

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• Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

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  Writing, Literature, Aphorism

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

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• In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.

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  Knowledge, Stupidity, Rooms

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

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• I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

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  Education, Reading, Pride

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

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• A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

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  Plagiarism, Hundred, Made

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

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• How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

  Karl Kraus

  Faithful, Today, Tomorrow

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

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• One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

  Karl Kraus

  Long, Aphorism

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

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• Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

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  People, Enough, Greetings

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

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• Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

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  Dog, Moon, Ironic

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

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• To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

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  Reading, Writing, May

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

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• Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

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  Hate, Men, Might

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• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

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  Girl, Sex, Children

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

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• Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.

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  Views, Agreement, Share

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

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• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

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  Writing, Literature, Journalist

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• Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

  Karl Kraus

  Music, Ocean, Style

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

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• The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

  Karl Kraus

  Artist

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.157, Syracuse University Press

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• On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

  Karl Kraus

  Personality, Acting, Actors

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

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• The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

  Karl Kraus

  Pimp, Morality, Organs

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

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