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Karl Kraus Quotes



Quotes by Karl Kraus - (10 quotes)

Karl Kraus - From the Art category:

Science is spectrum analysis; art is photosynthesis. (Karl Kraus)

Karl Kraus - From the Artists category:

Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution. (Karl Kraus)

Karl Kraus - From the Books category:

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? (Karl Kraus)

Karl Kraus - From the Doubt category:

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards. (Karl Kraus)

Karl Kraus - From the Jealousy category:

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. (Karl Kraus)

Karl Kraus - From the Language category:

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. (Karl Kraus)

Karl Kraus - From the Love category:

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace. (Karl Kraus)

Karl Kraus - From the Truth category:

An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. (Karl Kraus)

Karl Kraus - From the Tyranny category:

The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love. (Karl Kraus)

Karl Kraus - From the Understanding category:

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. (Karl Kraus)