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
communication eye dumb
The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
writing criticism critics
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.
knows
A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
communication italian august
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
women able talent
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
women
It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.
style want doe
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
men language endless
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.
ideas language wells
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
art boredom looks
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
knowledge stupidity rooms
In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.
writing numbers poison
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
language source
Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
truth errors birth
Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?