“They were given the choice of becoming kings or the kings’ messengers. As it is with children, they all wanted to be messengers.”
Franz Kafka
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“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”
Franz Kafka
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“The mediation by the serpent was necessary: Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.”
Franz Kafka
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“Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.”
Franz Kafka
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“Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.”
Franz Kafka
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“The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.”
Franz Kafka
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Religions get lost as people do.”
Franz Kafka
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“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.”
Franz Kafka
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“Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let go of the earth.”
Franz Kafka
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“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.”
Franz Kafka
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Seen with the terrestially sullied eye, we are in the situation of travelers in a train that has met with an accident in a tunnel, and this at a place where the light of the beginning can no longer be seen, and the light of the end is so very small a glimmer that the gaze must continually search for it and is always losing it again, and, furthermore, both the beginning and the end are not even certainties.”
Franz Kafka
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Traveling
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“The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.”
Franz Kafka
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Traveling
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“If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?”
Franz Kafka
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Immortality
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“Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.”
Franz Kafka
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Vanity
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“In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.”
Franz Kafka
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conscience
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“Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.”
Franz Kafka
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”
Franz Kafka
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.”
Franz Kafka
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“Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”
Franz Kafka
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“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
Franz Kafka
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Beauty
