Karl Kraus citations célèbres
“Malades, la plupart le sont. Très peu se figurent en connaître la cause. Ce sont les psychologues.”
Il ne suffit pas de lire, 2019
Karl Kraus: Citations en anglais
“Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
1899, quoted in Franz Hare, Jahrhundertwende 1900: Untergangsstimmung und Fortschrittsglauben, Stuttgart, 1998, p. 190
“Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), pp. 73-74
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Family life is an encroachment on private life.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), p. 74
“Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory?”
Karl Kraus Sprüche und Widersprüche
Sprüche und Widersprüche (Dicta and Contradictions)
“A man's jealousy is a social institution, a woman's prostitution an instinct.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
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.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
