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
writing ideas feelings
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
ideas often-is action
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
hilarious ideas literature
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
ideas splitting
Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.
ideas people opinion
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.
ideas essence able
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
ideas language wells
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
writing skills ideas
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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.
action hard surprised translate
You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought