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
want literature ideals
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
boredom disease syphilis
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
christian lust morality
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
men literature equal
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
air people brain
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.
children pants short-pants
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
hilarious ideas literature
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
time people democracy
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
men sexuality
A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
world prison solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
father dignity sin
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
hate men might
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
jealousy dog thieves
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
sex law pimples
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.