Karl Kraus citations
Karl Kraus
Date de naissance: 28. avril 1874
Date de décès: 12. juin 1936
Karl Kraus est un écrivain autrichien né le 28 avril 1874 à Gitschin et mort le 12 juin 1936 à Vienne, ville dans laquelle il a vécu toute sa vie.
Auteur d'une œuvre monumentale qui n'est que très partiellement traduite en français, dramaturge, poète, essayiste, il a aussi et surtout été un satiriste et un pamphlétaire redouté. Il dénonçait avec la plus grande virulence, dans les pages de Die Fackel, la revue qu'il avait fondée et dont il a pendant presque quarante ans été le rédacteur à peu près exclusif, les compromissions, les dénis de justice et la corruption, et notamment la corruption de la langue en laquelle il voyait la source des plus grands maux de son époque, et dont il tenait la presse pour principale responsable.
Citations Karl Kraus
„Malades, la plupart le sont. Très peu se figurent en connaître la cause. Ce sont les psychologues.“
Il ne suffit pas de lire, 2019
„The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.“
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
„The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.“
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
„To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.“
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Contexte: There is no doubt that a dog is loyal. But does that mean we should emulate him? After all, he is loyal to people, not to other dogs. http://books.google.com/books?id=T9V0j2sfPpUC&q=%22there+is+no+doubt+that+a+dog+is+loyal+but+does+that+mean+we+should+emulate+him+after+all+he+is+loyal+to+people+not+to+other+dogs%22&pg=PA109#v=onepage
„A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.“
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
„You don't even live once.“
Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
„A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!“
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
„One shouldn't learn more than what one absolutely needs against life.“
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
„Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.“
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
„The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he.“
Variant translation: The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
„Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.“
Beim Wort genommen (1955); as translated by Harry Zohn
