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
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.
art business asking
If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.
opportunity crowds doe
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
mean nuts feet
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
censorship satire forbidden
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
book reading butterfly
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.
reading kind wells
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.
dog men loyal
To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.
stupid earthquakes force
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
mean opportunity democracy
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.