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
heads-or-tails style firsts
I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.
cities vienna culture
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
art three entertainment
The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
mean sacrifice may
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
life light order
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
paper information doe
If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.
artist
The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
ignorance depth illusion
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
lying hero people
The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.
truth real real-truth
The real truths are those that can be invented.
believe heroic-deeds religion
It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.
airplane psychology bus
Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.
real goes-on world
The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
uplifting reality looks
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.