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Karl Kraus Quotes
«War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost»
«An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aphorism, aphorisms, coincides, half-truth
«The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
amorality, immorality, triumphs
«The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
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boldest, bursts, conquest, goiter, goiters, swells
«This is something that I cannot get over / that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.»
«The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
areas, discoverer, discoverers, North Pole, social activity, social reality, The Discovery, wages
«Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
subordination, subsistence, tacit