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
effort causes life-is
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
world prison solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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.
wisdom experience inheritance
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
ideas often-is action
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
time people democracy
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
loss style something-new
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
fire shells literature
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.