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Karl Kraus Quotes about Truth

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

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

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

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

The real truths are those that can be invented.

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