Franz Kafka Quotes, Eye Quotes, Discovery Quotes

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Eye Quotes , Discovery Quotes

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Haunting Quotes

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Heart Quotes , Confusion Quotes

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Patience Quotes , Art Quotes

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Made Quotes , Wanted Quotes

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Book Quotes , Ice Quotes

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Independent Quotes , Guilt Quotes

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Educational Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Sad Quotes , Midnight Quotes

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Believe Quotes , Mean Quotes

The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Writing Quotes , Effort Quotes

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Depressing Quotes , Lying Quotes

Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Psychology Quotes

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Students Quotes

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Diaries Quotes

We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Fate Quotes , Order Quotes

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Darkness Quotes

It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Heart Quotes , Eye Quotes

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Down And Quotes , True Knowledge Quotes

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Communication Quotes , Writing Quotes