Karl Kraus's best aphorisms
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. · To have no thoughts and be able to express them: that is what makes a journalist. · The historian is not always a backward-looking prophet, but the journalist is always one who knew everything beforehand, afterwards.. (Updated Oct 29, 2019.)
On journalists, Vienna, psychoanalysis and language: Karl Kraus's sharpest lines from Die Fackel and his aphorism collections Sayings and Contradictions, Pro domo et mundo and By Night.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
By Night (1918).
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To have no thoughts and be able to express them: that is what makes a journalist.
Die Fackel 281 (1909); Pro domo et mundo.
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The historian is not always a backward-looking prophet, but the journalist is always one who knew everything beforehand, afterwards.
Die Fackel 298/299; By Night.
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Education is what most people receive, many pass on and few have.
Die Fackel 277/278; Pro domo et mundo.
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An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one and a half.
Die Fackel 270/271; Sayings and Contradictions.
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The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse.
Die Fackel 277/278; Pro domo et mundo.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Die Fackel 288; Pro domo et mundo.
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The scandal begins when the police put an end to it.
Die Fackel 263; Sayings and Contradictions.
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Satires that the censor understands are rightly banned.
Die Fackel 309/310; Pro domo et mundo.
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An artist is only someone who can turn a solution into a riddle.
Die Fackel 406/412; By Night.
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Family life is an intrusion into private life.
Die Fackel 270/271; Sayings and Contradictions.
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In Vienna the zeros put themselves in front of the one.
Die Fackel 324/325; Pro domo et mundo.
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The newspaper is time in a tin.
Sayings and Contradictions.
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Where am I to find the time to not read so much?
Sayings and Contradictions.
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