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
uplifting reality looks
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
immortality tolerate
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
real goes-on world
The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
differences people madness
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
airplane psychology bus
Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.
erotic curiosity meals
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
mean sacrifice may
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
lust normal destruction
It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
psychology useless poison
Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
paper information doe
If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.
life light order
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
character talent defects
Talent is often a defect in character.
artist
The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
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.