Franz Kafka Quotes

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Franz Kafka

Boring, Made, Point

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

Love, Nature, Alone

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka

Alone, Wait, Leave

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

Truth, Lie, Two

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, Nothing

Evil is whatever distracts.
Franz Kafka

Evil, Whatever, Distracts

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka

True, Feeling, Unhappy

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Franz Kafka

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Franz Kafka

May, Night, Kiss

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka

Start, Rather, Acceptable

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
Franz Kafka

Yourself, Struggle, Between

Religions get lost as people do.
Franz Kafka

Lost, Religions

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Franz Kafka

Evil, Cannot, Become

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.
Franz Kafka

Strength, Prayer, Striving

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.
Franz Kafka

Life, Experience, Mind

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
Franz Kafka

Time, Law, Fact

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Franz Kafka

Life, Before, Birth

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz Kafka

Unless, Delight, Refuge

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka

Love, Nothing, Songs

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz Kafka

Happiness, Perfect, Within

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Franz Kafka

Seems, Reflect, Comforting

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Franz Kafka

Guilt, Principle, Guiding

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Franz Kafka

Become, Clarity, Changes

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
Franz Kafka

Victory, Cheat, Anyone

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Born: July 3, 1883

Died: June 3, 1924

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