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
men light giving
A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.
psychology useless poison
Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
erotic curiosity meals
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
police stealing psychologist
If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.
today literature patient
Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.
age ink veins
Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.
men beast behave
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.
differences people madness
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
men two people
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
vision saws polymaths
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
long looks burning
I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.
artist vain duty
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
truth half aphorism
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
book literature geography
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.