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
loss want doe
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
song popular-song vilify
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
media achievement desire
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
art weakness dogma
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.
beauty beautiful way
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
character talent defects
Talent is often a defect in character.
loneliness solitude tables
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.
education learning needs
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
art character men
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
wall writing progress
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
reading writing request
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
perseverance opportunity reality
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.
imagination tree shade
Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
sex masturbation substitutes
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.