Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inherit…

Karl Kraus
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
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The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. ✨ Die Fackel, no. 277/78 (March 31, 1909), translated in Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Ps … ▶
An 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 aphorisms
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

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