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Karl Kraus
A child learns...
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Education is a...
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not...
A weak man...
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Source:...
Journalist: a person...
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a...
Artists have a...
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
Source: Photograph...
Adults who [hang]...
Adults who [hang] gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life...
If a reporter...
If a reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens out life with his...
A writer is...
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Source: In Webster's...
Journalists write because...
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they...
How is the...
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in...
Do not learn...
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Source: In
Education is what...
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Source:
-- Karl...
An aphorism never...
An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half...
The closer the...
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
The devil is...
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
If one reads...
If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The...
Science is spectral...
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Source: Pro Domo et Mundo,...
The agitator seizes...
The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it.
Source: Die Fackel,...
It is the...
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something...
The discovery of...
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human...
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