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
truth lying white
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
women cosmetics cosmos
Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
mother speech handmaids
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
advice neighbor better-yourself
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
girl sex children
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
beauty beautiful women
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
success education wise
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
reading book book-reading
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
history historian backwards
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
shoes sun settling
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
writing literature journalist
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
art science light
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
mental-illness therapy psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
thinking important trying
There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.