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
education men vests
I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
education teacher pupils
What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
education potassium cyanide
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
education reading pride
I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
education school wine
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
education learning needs
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
education children doors
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
education teacher
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
success education wise
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
legs men news people reports shot stand theirs walk
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. ClichTs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
forbidden insult love mechanical philosophy sexes sin subject time
Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.
artist seized
The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it.
funny war lying
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
repressed
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.