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
Karl Kraus quotes about
imagination tree shade
Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
boredom disease syphilis
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
time people democracy
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
opponents literature cases
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
newspapers fortune metaphysics
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
erotic curiosity meals
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
psychology useless poison
Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
censorship satire forbidden
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
mental-illness therapy psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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.
mental-illness illness cures
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure
emptiness empty deals
A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
repressed
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.