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“Wo nehm ich nur all die Zeit her, so viel nicht zu lesen?”
Source: Dicta and Contradicta
“Es gibt Menschen, die es zeitlebens einem Bettler nachtragen, daß sie ihm nichts gegeben haben.”
“Der Teufel ist ein Optimist, wenn er meint er könnte den Menschen schlechter machen.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden”
“An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time”
Source: No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus
“Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.”
“Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.”
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
“The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.”
Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!”
Source: Dicta and Contradicta
“If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.”
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
“When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.”
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
“In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.”
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