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Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or race hatred. To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. No petty prejudices!
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
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Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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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.
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"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."
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When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
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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.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
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Women at least have elegant dresses. But what can men use to cover their emptiness?
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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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Progress … has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.
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Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while cleaning them.
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An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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Karl Kraus
Born:
April 28, 1874
Died:
June 12, 1936
(aged 62)
Bio:
Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics.
Known for:
The Last Days of Mankind (1919)
In these great times
Dicta and contradicta
Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths
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