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. Franz Kafka More Quotes by Franz Kafka More Quotes From Franz Kafka There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. Franz Kafka deceit two lying This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me. Franz Kafka novelists pieces tears It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you. Franz Kafka waiting home world Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph. Franz Kafka deceptive photograph From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true. Franz Kafka quiet world fall . . . 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. Franz Kafka suicidal suicide book I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. Franz Kafka solitude writing men 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. Franz Kafka depressing views lying 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. Franz Kafka psychology reflection world I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it. Franz Kafka i-can Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle. Franz Kafka castles keys book I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance. Franz Kafka ignorance law book So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. Franz Kafka cooking food long They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. Franz Kafka stupidity understanding talking 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. Franz Kafka disappear eye discovery Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka intense obsession hate Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall. Franz Kafka wall night mean There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves. Franz Kafka sat faded Dread of night. Dread of not-night. Franz Kafka dread fear night The truth is always an abyss. Franz Kafka abyss truth-is
