My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once. Karl Kraus More Quotes by Karl Kraus More Quotes From Karl Kraus Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them. Karl Kraus what-matters opinion sound To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism. Karl Kraus able essence ideas An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half. Karl Kraus How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. Karl Kraus Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy. Karl Kraus Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world. Karl Kraus The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them. Karl Kraus