Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 9

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• Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Curiosity, Enlightenment

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

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• What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Enough, Historian

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

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• It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

  Karl Kraus

  Loss, Style, Something New

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• Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Children, Doors

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• My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Thinking, Waiting

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

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• If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

  Karl Kraus

  Doe, Paper, Information

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• Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

  Karl Kraus

  Age, Talent, Preserves

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

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• A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.

  Karl Kraus

  Memories, Vanity, Objectivity

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

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• I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

  Karl Kraus

  Long, Burning, Looks

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• There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

  Karl Kraus

  Clerks, Journalism, Shortage

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

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• The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

  Karl Kraus

  Perseverance, Opportunity, Reality

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• A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

  Karl Kraus

  Might, Praise, Snob

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• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Ideas, Feelings

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

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• The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Fire, Acting

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

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• In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

  Karl Kraus

  Dark, Doe, Actors

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

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• The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Weakness, Dogma

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.114, Syracuse University Press

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• An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

  Karl Kraus

  Artist, Symphony, Lord

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

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• News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Two, People

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• Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

  Karl Kraus

  Wisdom, Experience, Saving

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

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• Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

  Karl Kraus

  Ideas, Splitting

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• It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

  Karl Kraus

  Ideas, People, Opinion

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

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• "A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Light, Giving

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

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• Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

  Karl Kraus

  Thieves, Victim, Valuable

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

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• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Pants, Short Pants

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• Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

  Karl Kraus

  Psychology, Poison, Useless

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

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