Quote

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

Karl Kraus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Jicin
Either
Half
Truth

More quotes by Karl Kraus

Image
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
Karl Kraus
Image
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Karl Kraus
Image
I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
Karl Kraus
Image
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
Karl Kraus
Image
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Karl Kraus
Image
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
Karl Kraus
Image
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus
Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
Karl Kraus
Image
Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
Karl Kraus
Image
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
Karl Kraus
Image
One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
Karl Kraus
Image
They judge lest they be judged.
Karl Kraus
Image
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus
Image
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
Karl Kraus
Image
The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
Karl Kraus
Image
The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
Karl Kraus
Image
In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
Karl Kraus
Image
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
Karl Kraus
Image
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
Karl Kraus
Image
Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
Karl Kraus