Karl Kraus Quotes on Truth
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An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
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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.
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'It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.'
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back.
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The real truths are those that can be invented.
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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.