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“One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.”

Karl Kraus

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

“Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.”

Karl Kraus

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

“One shouldn't learn more than what one absolutely needs against life.”

Karl Kraus

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

“A woman is, occasionally, quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure.”

Karl Kraus

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

“The real truths are those that can be invented.”

Karl Kraus

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

“Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.”

Karl Kraus

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

“There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.”

Karl Kraus

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

“A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!”

Karl Kraus

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

“The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.”

Karl Kraus

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

“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

“I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping something might improve if I viewed all sides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and be able use one's prejudice as an excuse.”

Karl Kraus

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

“A "seducer" who boasts of initiating women into the mystery of love is like a stranger who arrives at a railroad station and offers to show the sights to a tourist guide.”

Karl Kraus

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

“Solitude would be an ideal state if one were able to pick the people one avoids.”

Karl Kraus

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

“Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have.”

Karl Kraus

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

“I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.”

Karl Kraus

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

“When someone has behaved like an animal, he says: "I'm only human!" But when he is treated like an animal, he says: "I'm human, too!"”

Karl Kraus

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

“Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor who just wanted to see what it was like in there.”

Karl Kraus

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

“Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.”

Karl Kraus

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

“What is my love? That I amalgamate the bad features of a woman into a good picture. And my hatred? That I see the bad features in the picture of a bad man.”

Karl Kraus

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

“True jealously wants not only fidelity, but the proof of fidelity as an imaginable situation. A jealous man is not content with his beloved not being unfaithful. Precisely that which he is not doing does not leave him in peace. But since there is no proving what is not done and the jealous man insists on proof, he ends up settling on proof of unfaithfulness.”

Karl Kraus

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