Franz Kafka Quotes
Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places. How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. In a certain sense the Good is comfortless. In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. In the fight between you and the world, back the world. In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world. In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. 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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