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
mean doe
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
german-language littles today
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.
berlin serious vienna
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
artist vain duty
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
mental-illness illness cures
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure
vision saws polymaths
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
responsibility men demand
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.
life politician relation
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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.
beautiful art embrace
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
sex masturbation substitutes
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
book literature geography
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
emptiness empty deals
A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
half half-truth
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.