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
berlin serious vienna
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
mental-illness illness cures
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure
mirrors looks world
The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
writing literature aphorism
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
marriage society unions
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
morning up-early stupidity
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
pride littles proud
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
fire shells literature
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
attention literature culture
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
children army play
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
lying imagination journalism
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
ideas often-is action
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
wisdom experience inheritance
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
literature affair
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.