Karl KrausAn idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected ap… ▶352ThoughtTruth
Karl KrausA writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.341Love
Karl KrausTo be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.353Politics
Karl KrausHow is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. ✨ Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wo… ▶331Truth
Karl KrausIn case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms332Truth
Karl KrausStupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.365Love
Karl KrausIt is either a half-truth or a truth and a half. ✨ Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, p.157, Syrac… ▶311Truth
Karl KrausLove and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms355LoveTruth
Karl KrausLife is an effort that deserves a better cause. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms333LifeTruth
Karl KrausVirginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. ✨ Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). Dicta and Contradicta, p.23, University of Illinois Press377Thought
Karl KrausTruth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms356Truth
Karl KrausYou don't even live once. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms334Truth
Karl KrausThe trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.356Thought
Karl KrausThe sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.301Life
Karl KrausA woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. ✨ Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). Dicta and Contradicta, p.9, University of Illinois Press356Reading
Karl KrausA weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms312Truth
Karl KrausHe who sleeps half a day has won half a life.379Life
Karl KrausIt is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.324Thought
Karl KrausThe secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.3710Death
Karl KrausSomeone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms336TimeTruth
Karl KrausSexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. ✨ Die Fackel, No. 315/16, January 26, 1911.358Death
Karl KrausDemocracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.359Humanity
Karl KrausHate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.261Love
Karl KrausDemocracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: select… ▶327HumanityTimeTruth
Karl KrausProgress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that sa… ▶339HumanityThought
Karl KrausThe world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. ✨ Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths. Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.317ReadingTruth
Karl KrausSex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Sele… ▶339Truth
Karl KrausIf the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.262LifeTruth
Karl KrausA journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms273DeathTimeTruth
Karl KrausHe who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.296Sadness
