“An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.”
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Die Fackel no. 270/71 (19 January 1909)
Die Fackel
“Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.”
Section 216
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
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