“An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time”
Source: No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus
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Famous Karl Kraus Quotes
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.”
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
“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
“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
“If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.”
“The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.”
Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.”