Franz Kafka Quotes, Evil Quotes, Deception Quotes

Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

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The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

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Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

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I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

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Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

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There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

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The limited circle is pure.

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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

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It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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Love is a drama of contradictions.

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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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