3 December 2020 Franz Kafka So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka 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.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka 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.
