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
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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.
police stealing psychologist
If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.
today literature patient
Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.
age ink veins
Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.
ideas splitting
Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.
mirrors looks world
The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
time writing deadline
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
peace war expectations
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
education teacher
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
mean agreement civilization
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
cities vienna culture
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.