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 More Quotes by Franz Kafka More Quotes From Franz Kafka Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Franz Kafka determined may men In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion. Franz Kafka deny life world In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure. Franz Kafka circles humans lying Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. Franz Kafka dream lying thinking I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head. Franz Kafka storm dancing spring Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka inspirational-birthday happy-birthday beauty Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you. Franz Kafka solitary-life suicidal suicide Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. Franz Kafka self spiritual mean Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. Franz Kafka philosophical sleep men There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us. Franz Kafka amount universe infinite Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself. Franz Kafka plunge knives love-is There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return. Franz Kafka paradise return two What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself. Franz Kafka jew common There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. Franz Kafka spiritual evil world I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. Franz Kafka feeling-lost feelings depression Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never. Franz Kafka singing silence song The true word leads; the untrue misleads. Franz Kafka true-words mislead untrue A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief." Franz Kafka lawyer persons writing The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support. Franz Kafka support literature spirit I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty. Franz Kafka chaos empty uncertain