A Quote by Karl Kraus

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

Karl Kraus

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Aphorism Either Exactly Half Half Truth Never True Truth Truths

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Karl Kraus
Austrian - Writer
April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936

Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.

Tarek Saab

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.

William Butler Yeats

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Conrad Black

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Philip Wylie

Imagine that half the world is hidden from you. Half of the person sitting across from you has never been appreciated, half of the garden has never been seen or smelled, half of your own life has never been truly witnessed and appraised.

Arthur Zajonc

Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.

Randall Jarrell

Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

Carl Sandburg

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

Mark Lawrence

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

Arthur Koestler

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

Hyman Rickover

Two half truths do not make a truth.

Arthur Koestler

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.