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“Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.”
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Karl Kraus
#People Quotes
#Solitude Quotes
#Would Be Quotes
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“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.”
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Karl Kraus
Source : "Die Fackel", no. 277/78 (March 31, 1909), translated in "Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry" by Thomas Szasz, (Ch. 8), 1970.
#Thinking Quotes
#People Quotes
#Devil Quotes
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“Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.”
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Karl Kraus
#Work Quotes
#Imagination Quotes
#Sometimes Quotes
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“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.”
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Karl Kraus
#Motivational Quotes
#Success Quotes
#Strong Quotes
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“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.”
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Karl Kraus
#Life Quotes
#Beautiful Quotes
#Writing Quotes
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“Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.”
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Karl Kraus
#Writing Quotes
#Skills Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
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“My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.”
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Karl Kraus
#Common Quotes
#Language Quotes
#Turns Quotes
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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.”
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Karl Kraus
#Dog Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Example Quotes
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“Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.”
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Karl Kraus
#Mother Quotes
#Language Quotes
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“Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden”
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Karl Kraus
#Censorship Quotes
#Satire Quotes
#Forbidden Quotes
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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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Karl Kraus
#Reading Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Butterfly Quotes
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“A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.”
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Karl Kraus
#History Quotes
#Historian Quotes
#Backwards Quotes
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“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.”
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Karl Kraus
#Beauty Quotes
#Beautiful Quotes
#Women Quotes
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“Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.”
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Karl Kraus
Source : Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”
#Mental Illness Quotes
#Illness Quotes
#Therapy Quotes
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“Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, 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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Karl Kraus
#Mean Quotes
#Nuts Quotes
#Feet Quotes
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“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.”
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Karl Kraus
#Art Quotes
#Science Quotes
#Light Quotes
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“Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.”
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Karl Kraus
#Stupid Quotes
#Earthquakes Quotes
#Force Quotes
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“Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.”
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Karl Kraus
#Literature Quotes
#World Quotes
#Sexuality Quotes
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“Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.”
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Karl Kraus
#Mean Quotes
#Opportunity Quotes
#Democracy Quotes
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“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.”
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Karl Kraus
#Success Quotes
#Wise Quotes
#Education Quotes
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“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.”
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Karl Kraus
#Country Quotes
#Literature Quotes
#Might Quotes
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“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.”
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Karl Kraus
#Lying Quotes
#War Quotes
#Believe Quotes
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“Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.”
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Karl Kraus
#Christian Quotes
#Lust Quotes
#Morality Quotes
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“The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.”
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Karl Kraus
#Fire Quotes
#Shells Quotes
#Literature Quotes
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“Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.”
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Karl Kraus
#Girl Quotes
#Sex Quotes
#Children Quotes
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“Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.”
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Karl Kraus
#Writing Quotes
#Literature Quotes
#Journalist Quotes
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“Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?”
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Karl Kraus
#Book Quotes
#Reading Quotes
#Book Reading Quotes
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“I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.”
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Karl Kraus
#Education Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Pockets Quotes
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“A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.”
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Karl Kraus
#Jealousy Quotes
#Sex Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.”
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Karl Kraus
#Children Quotes
#Fear Quotes
#Father Quotes
