Karl Kraus Quotes about Age

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Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

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”

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

Karl Kraus

Greek, Age, Boyhood

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).