A gift book featuring aphorisms that still impress today with their foresight and sharpness. "For where would one end up if one went within oneself?" With a sharp pen, Kurt Tucholsky, one of the most read writers and social critics of the Weimar Republic, put down glosses and satires, cabaret scenes, poetry, and chansons. He stood against corrupt bourgeois respectability and bureaucracy, against civic lethargy and the justice system.

Tucholsky was a humorously ironic polemicist with a great fondness for wordplay. As Herbert Riehl-Heyse wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the humanist, "who was cheeky and scrupulous, held a (often disappointed) love for humanity sacred." His aphorisms and life wisdom, collected in this volume, still impress today with their foresight and sharpness.