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Quotes from Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths — Karl Kraus

1874–1936 Austria

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71 quotes

The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and the dessert of remorse.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

A man's jealousy is a social institution, a woman's prostitution an instinct.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

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The real truths are those that can be invented.

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Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Kraus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.