“Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.”
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Famous Karl Kraus Quotes
“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.”
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“Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.”
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“The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back.”
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“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.”
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Karl Kraus Quotes about people
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“If I return some people's greetings, I do so only to give them their greeting back.”
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“Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have.”
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“Solitude would be an ideal state if one were able to pick the people one avoids.”
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“I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.”
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Variant translation: The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.
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Karl Kraus Quotes about women
“Women at least have elegant dresses. But what can men use to cover their emptiness?”
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“I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.”
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“The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.”
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“There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.”
Karl Kraus Sprüche und Widersprüche
Sprüche und Widersprüche (Dicta and Contradictions) (1909); as translated by Richard Hanser
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“The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.”
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Karl Kraus Quotes
“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.”
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Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
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“Squeeze human nature into a straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear!”
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“An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.”
Die Fackel no. 270/71 (19 January 1909)
Die Fackel
“Nothing is more unfathomable than a woman's superficiality.”
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Die Fackel no. 445/53 (18 January 1917)
Die Fackel
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“The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one.”
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“Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.”
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“One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.”
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“One shouldn't learn more than what one absolutely needs against life.”
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“The real truths are those that can be invented.”
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“Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.”
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“A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!”
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“Many things I am experiencing I already remember.”
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“Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature.”
Der Fortschritt feiert Pyrrhussiege über die Natur.
Pro Domo et Mundo, 7, „Pro Domo et Mundo”
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“It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.”
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“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), pp. 73-74
“Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.”
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“Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.”
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“My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.”
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“Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.”
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“Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.”
Die Fackel no. 315/16 (26 January 1911)
Die Fackel
“Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.”
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“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), p. 74
“When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.”
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Die Fackel no. 406/12 (5 October 1915)
Die Fackel
“The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes a man.”
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“Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.”
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1899, quoted in Franz Hare, Jahrhundertwende 1900: Untergangsstimmung und Fortschrittsglauben, Stuttgart, 1998, p. 190
“Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.”
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“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.”
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“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), pp. 73-74
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