“The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
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Famous Karl Kraus Quotes
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Family life is an encroachment on private life.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Medicine: "Your money and your life!”
Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
“If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.”
Source: Dicta and Contradicta
“Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.”
“Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more.”
Source: Dicta and Contradicta
“Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.”
Source: Dicta and Contradicta