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
history historian backwards
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
shoes sun settling
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
beauty beautiful women
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
satire censored
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
success education wise
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
censorship satire forbidden
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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.
mental-illness therapy psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
mean nuts feet
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
truth lying white
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
hate men might
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
sleep half good-sleep
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
dog moon sentimental
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
sex law pimples
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.