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What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

Karl Kraus

Beautiful, Freedom, People

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

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

Karl Kraus

People, Speak, Stage

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

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

Karl Kraus

Truth, Half, Aphorism

That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

Karl Kraus

Cheating, Humility, Doe

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

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

Karl Kraus

Freedom, Cells, Austria

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

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

Karl Kraus

Children, Fear, Father

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

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

Karl Kraus

Heart, Men, Desire

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

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Karl Kraus

Criticism, Abbreviations, Artistic

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

Karl Kraus

Time, Writing, Deadline

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

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

Karl Kraus

Reading, Writing, Acting

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

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

Karl Kraus

People, Littles, Satire

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

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

Karl Kraus

Believe, Heroic Deeds, Religion

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

Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.

Karl Kraus

Age, Ink, Veins

Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).