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Famous Karl Kraus Quotes
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
“Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.”
“A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.”
Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
“Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.”
“The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.”
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
“Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms