“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)
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“Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.”
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)
“I am not for women but against men.”
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)
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Context: There is no doubt that a dog is loyal. But does that mean we should emulate him? After all, he is loyal to people, not to other dogs. http://books.google.com/books?id=T9V0j2sfPpUC&q=%22there+is+no+doubt+that+a+dog+is+loyal+but+does+that+mean+we+should+emulate+him+after+all+he+is+loyal+to+people+not+to+other+dogs%22&pg=PA109#v=onepage
“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Squeeze human nature into a straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear!”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“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.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Die Fackel no. 445/53 (18 January 1917)
Die Fackel
Die Fackel no. 46 (9 October 1917)
Die Fackel
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)