Franz Kafka Quotes, Justice Quotes, Age Quotes

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

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

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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

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When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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

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I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

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It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

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One reads in order to ask questions

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There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

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Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

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Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

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Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

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

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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

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If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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