Karl Kraus Ideas Quotations

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

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

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.