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
funny war lying
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
forbidden insult love mechanical philosophy sexes sin subject time
Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.
plagiarism should hundred
A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.
newspapers fortune metaphysics
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
mental-illness therapy psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
mental-illness illness cures
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure