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
morning up-early stupidity
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
marriage society unions
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
education learning needs
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
education children doors
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
perseverance opportunity reality
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.
dream pockets psychoanalysis
The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
effort causes life-is
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
hilarious ideas literature
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
children pants short-pants
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
lying imagination journalism
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
christian lust morality
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
boredom disease syphilis
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
want literature ideals
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
literature affair
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.