Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Karl Kraus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Jicin
Spread
Literature
Attention
Span
Culture
Mission
Destroying
Missions
Presses
Press
More quotes by Karl Kraus
A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
Karl Kraus
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
Karl Kraus
There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
Karl Kraus
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Karl Kraus
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
Karl Kraus
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
Karl Kraus
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Karl Kraus
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
Karl Kraus
The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
Karl Kraus
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus
Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
Karl Kraus
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
Karl Kraus
The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
Karl Kraus
Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
Karl Kraus
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
Karl Kraus
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
Karl Kraus
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl Kraus
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Karl Kraus
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
Karl Kraus
