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. Franz Kafka More Quotes by Franz Kafka More Quotes From Franz Kafka If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? Franz Kafka immortality tomorrow ifs Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Franz Kafka true-beauty inner-beauty youth Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. Franz Kafka tyrants educational two I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly. Franz Kafka missing All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves! Franz Kafka light dog answers sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty. Franz Kafka guilty sleep men All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. Franz Kafka issues errors patience Kill me, or you are a murderer. Franz Kafka murderer kill-me There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. Franz Kafka real beautiful talking Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. Franz Kafka progress mean believe The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms. Franz Kafka arms he-man men There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. Franz Kafka spring patience art A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. Franz Kafka ice reading book Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes. Franz Kafka mirrors watches art I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough. Franz Kafka strong heart lying Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. Franz Kafka names life lying Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed. Franz Kafka pieces confusion firsts When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to. Franz Kafka evil trying mean But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end? Franz Kafka what-if contentment comfort My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey. Franz Kafka journey happy-life fall
