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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

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

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

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

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

Karl Kraus
Language, Source

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

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

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

Karl Kraus
Ideas, Language, Wells

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

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

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