8 Karl Kraus Quotes on Truth

Karl Kraus quotes on truth

4. An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.

15. A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

26. How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

28. 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.

29. 'It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.'

41. The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back.

43. The real truths are those that can be invented.

45. 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.