“A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.”
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Famous Karl Kraus Quotes
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Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
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Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.”
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“I am not for women but against men.”
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“When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.”
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“A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.”
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“What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.”
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“A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.”
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“There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.”
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Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.”
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“The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.”
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“They judge lest they be judged.”
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“Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.”
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“I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.”
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“The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.”
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“One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.”
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“The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.”
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“One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.”
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“My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.”
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“A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.”
“Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.”
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Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.”
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Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.”