Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus

Playwright, Journalist

Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and satirist known for his sharp critiques of society, particularly in his influential work 'The Last Days of Mankind'.

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Born
February 28, 1874
Died
June 12, 1936
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263
Rank
#501

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"A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand."

Journalism Prophet Historian
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"To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so."

Miracle Flight Stills
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"The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man."

Men Ideals Premature
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"The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on."

Real Goes On World
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"The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body."

Art Fire Acting
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"Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein."

Passion Giving Emotion
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"Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them."

Views Agreement Share
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"Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater."

Baby Morality Tendencies
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"Family life is an encroachment on private life."

Life Family Privacy
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"I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails."

Heads Or Tails Style Firsts
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"One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long."

Long Aphorism
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"The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors."

Father Example Causes
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"A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct."

Jealousy Sex Men
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"Medicine: "Your money and your life!"

Money Medicine
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"It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it."

Journalism Missions Intellect
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"Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well."

Father Dignity Sin
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"Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing."

Men Space Earth
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"I don't like to meddle in my private affairs."

Literature Affair
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"Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?"

Hate Humanity Tears
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