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)
„True jealously wants not only fidelity, but the proof of fidelity as an imaginable situation. A jealous man is not content with his beloved not being unfaithful. Precisely that which he is not doing does not leave him in peace. But since there is no proving what is not done and the jealous man insists on proof, he ends up settling on proof of unfaithfulness.“
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
„Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.“
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
„When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.“
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
„The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.“
Die Fackel no. 406/12 (5 October 1915)
Die Fackel
„Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.“
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
