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
father example causes
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
artist symphony lord
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
writing enough historian
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
people use language
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
cancer decision suffering
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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.