Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

His friendship with Peter Altenberg began about this time. To the numerous enemies he made due to the inflexibility and intensity of his partisanship however he was a bitter misanthrope and poor would-be (Alfred Kerr). Person
Karl Kraus was a subject of controversy throughout his lifetime.

Karl Kraus (April 28 1874 – June 12 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist known as a satirist essayist aphorist playwright and poet. For the theologian see Karl Christian Friedrich Krause.