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
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.
lying war believe
How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.
common language turns
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
literature consciousness psychologist
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
life beautiful writing
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
mother language
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.