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“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

“In one ear and out the other: this would still make the head a transit station. What I hear has to go out the same ear.”

Karl Kraus

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

“I hear noises which others don't hear and which disturb for me the music of the spheres, which others don't hear either.”

Karl Kraus

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

Music

“War is at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that the other fellow isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.”

Karl Kraus

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

War , Hope

“Most writers have no other quality than the reader: taste. But the latter has the better taste, because he does not write - and the best if he does not read.”

Karl Kraus

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

Reading

“I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.”

Karl Kraus

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

Understanding

“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.”

Karl Kraus

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

Dogs , People