Karl Kraus

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#am #anyone #becomes #i #i am

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#having #i #life #made #opponents

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

#each #hear #i #other #public

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#had #him #i #open #saw

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#does #express #mean #means #than

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

#console #idealism #itself #loss #new

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#journalists #nothing #say #something #write

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#language #mother #thought

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#matrimony #meanness #union

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#express #ideas #journalist #them