Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
Karl Krauswas an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. The Austrian author Stefan Zweig once called Kraus "the master of venomous ridicule"...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 April 1874
CountryAustria
half half-truth
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
mean doe
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
beautiful art embrace
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
philosophical truth-is break
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
justice criminals human-nature
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
men triumph morality
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
life politician relation
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
distance long looks
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
decision doubt favors
In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
mean agreement civilization
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
education children doors
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
effort causes life-is
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
You don't even live once.
clothes skins borders
One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.