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Karl Kraus (April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936) was an eminent Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, and poet. He is generally considered one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially known for his witty criticism of the press, German culture, and German politics. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Kraus, Karl.
"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave."
Kraus, Karl on Democracy
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"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
Kraus, Karl on Education
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"A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality."
Kraus, Karl on Eroticism
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"Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves."
Kraus, Karl on Irony
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"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies."
Kraus, Karl on Journalism and Journalists
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"Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden."
Kraus, Karl on Language
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"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life."
Kraus, Karl on Learning
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"An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half."
Kraus, Karl on Aphorisms and Epigrams
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"Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?"
Kraus, Karl on Army and Navy
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"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
Kraus, Karl on Marriage
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"The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women."
Kraus, Karl on Morality
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"The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets."
Kraus, Karl on Psychoanalysis
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"When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest."
Kraus, Karl on Religion
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"Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it."
Kraus, Karl on Scandal
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"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."
Kraus, Karl on Science and Scientists
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"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
Kraus, Karl on Sexuality
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"He who sleeps half a day has won half a life."
Kraus, Karl on Sleep
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"Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning."
Kraus, Karl on Stupidity
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"The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back."
Kraus, Karl on Words
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