Karl Kraus
Austria
28 Apr 1874 // 12 Jun 1936
Writer / Journalist
28 Apr 1874 // 12 Jun 1936
Writer / Journalist
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays