Franz Kafka: Citáty v angličtine (page 4)

“Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man, and this immediately, though, of course, only in the case of complete and permanent humility. It can do this because it is the true language of prayer, at once adoration and the firmest of unions. 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.”

“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man’s wish to rest for a moment — an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.”

“Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”

“Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.”

“In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.”

“To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.”

“Paths are made by walking.”

“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”

“I am not well. I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”

“Paths are made by walking”

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe… but not for us.”

“Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.”

“The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary”