Karl Kraus
Austria
28 Apr 1874 // 12 Jun 1936
Writer / Journalist
28 Apr 1874 // 12 Jun 1936
Writer / Journalist
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer
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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