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
people use language
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
reading writing may
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
writing thinking waiting
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.
two clothes soul-and-body
There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.
art art-is clear
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
perfect-one perfect defects
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
people littles
Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more.
powerful lying volcanoes
How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
neighbor love-thy-neighbor thyself
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.
ideas splitting
Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.
people littles satire
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
ideas people opinion
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.
pain anesthesia without-pain
Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
criticism abbreviations artistic
A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.