It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. Franz Kafka More Quotes by Franz Kafka More Quotes From Franz Kafka 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 peers men history There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it. Franz Kafka true-knowledge childlike down-and From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. Franz Kafka antagonist courage The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road. Franz Kafka despair form travel People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others. Franz Kafka space people fall The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows. Franz Kafka doubt heaven mean Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists. Franz Kafka psychologist work joy Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. Franz Kafka dumb heaven Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres. Franz Kafka horror office trying Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment. Franz Kafka want diaries writing 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 literature self world My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. Franz Kafka degrees terrible people There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering. Franz Kafka wavering goal way 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. Franz Kafka hype elements sensual If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. Franz Kafka tower-of-babel climbing hiking I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner. Franz Kafka hunts construction rooms And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils. Franz Kafka trying goodbye long Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death. Franz Kafka understanding suicide mean What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed? Franz Kafka fate morning men I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. Franz Kafka unrest voice writing
