A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
Karl KrausAsk your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
Karl KrausLanguage is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.
Karl KrausA pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.
Karl Kraus