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Karl Kraus Quotes - Page 3

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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Funny, War, Lying

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

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

Education, Men, Pockets

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

Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

What Matters, Sound, Opinion

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

If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

Friendship, Dream, Wish

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

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

Thinking, Important, Trying

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

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

Two, Twenties, Needs

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

We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.

Mean, Sacrifice, May

"In These Great Times". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, p. 74, 1976.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Time, Reading, Book

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

Writing, Skills, Ideas

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

Morning, Up Early, Stupidity

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Life, Sleep, Half

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

Rabbits, Wanted, Psychoanalysis

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

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

Education, Wine, School

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

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Mother, Language

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

Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

Literature, Today, Patient

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

Medicine: "Your money and your life!

Money, Medicine

Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.152, Syracuse University Press

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

World, Prison, Solitary

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

Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.

Airplane, Psychology, Bus

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

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Life, Beautiful, Writing

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Education, Learning, Advice

Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?

Hate, Humanity, Tears

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

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

Life, Family, Privacy

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

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

Trust, Mean, Vain

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

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Religion, Atheism, Society

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

Literature, Consciousness, Psychologist

Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.106, Syracuse University Press

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