“If I return some people's greetings, I do so only to give them their greeting back.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Karl Kraus: Citáty v angličtine
Karl Kraus bol český dramatik a publicista. Citáty v angličtine.Karl Kraus: 167 citátov44 Páči sa
“Many things I am experiencing I already remember.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature.”
Der Fortschritt feiert Pyrrhussiege über die Natur.
Pro Domo et Mundo, 7, „Pro Domo et Mundo”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), pp. 73-74
“Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.”
Die Fackel no. 315/16 (26 January 1911)
Die Fackel
“Women at least have elegant dresses. But what can men use to cover their emptiness?”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), p. 74
“When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Die Fackel no. 406/12 (5 October 1915)
Die Fackel
“The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes a man.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)