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Karl Kraus
1874 - 1936. Austrian journalist, satirist and aphorist.
categories: Peace and War
2. "Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients."
source: "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"
categories: Art and Culture -:- Health and Alcohol
3. "There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way."
categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Woman and Man
4. "The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt."
source: "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"
categories: Art and Culture
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
6. "The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women."
source: "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Woman and Man
categories: Beauty and Ugliness
8. "The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are."
categories: Good and Evil
9. "Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."
categories: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology
10. "No ideas and the ability to express them? That's a journalist."
categories: Various
categories: Various
12. "Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
categories: Marriage
13. "Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace."
categories: Art and Culture -:- Beauty and Ugliness -:- Love
14. "Life is an effort that deserves a better cause."
source: "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"
categories: Life and Death
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
16. "Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram."
categories: Love -:- Woman and Man
17. "Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."
categories: Education
18. "Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
categories: Education
19. "Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds."
source: "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"
categories: Pain and Tears
20. "A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer."
categories: Art and Culture
21. "A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards."
categories: Power and Weakness
22. "A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards."
source: "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"
categories: History and Nations
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