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
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.
legs men news people reports shot stand theirs walk
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. ClichTs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
patriotism unattractive aversion
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
might praise be-good
A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
heads-or-tails style firsts
I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.
errors humanity humans
To be human is erroneous.
pimp morality organs
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
journalism missions intellect
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
clerks journalism shortage
There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.
journalism prophet historian
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
plagiarism should hundred
A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.
cheating humility doe
That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
neighbor love-thy-neighbor thyself
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.
perfect-one perfect defects
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.