Karl Kraus: Man

Karl Kraus was Czech playwright and publicist. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.”

Karl Kraus

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

“To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.”

Karl Kraus

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

Dogs

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

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)

World , Heart

“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)

Love

“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)

Unfaithfulness , Peace , Imagination

“To divide people into sadists and masochists is almost as foolish as dividing them into eaters and digesters. In all cases one must disregard abnormalities; after all, there are people who are better at digesting than they are at eating and vice versa. As regards masochism and sadism, it is safe to say that a healthy person displays both perversities. The only ugly thing in each case is the word. The one derived from the novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch is particularly degrading, and it is hard not to let one's taste for things be spoiled by the designation. Nevertheless, a man with an artistic imagination will manage to let an authentic woman turn him into a masochist and an inauthentic one into a sadist. One knocks the latter's educated unnaturalness out of her until the woman is revealed. If she already is a woman, the only thing left to do is adore her.”

Karl Kraus

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

People , Education , Imagination , Personality

“The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes a man.”

Karl Kraus

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

“A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come round, mine is always lit.”

Karl Kraus

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

Light , Time

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

Karl Kraus

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

Jealousy