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Franz Kafka Quotes


Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

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

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Religions get lost as people do.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

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