Franz Kafka Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Movement Quotes

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

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Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

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Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

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Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

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Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

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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.

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This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

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They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

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It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

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My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

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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.

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I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

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One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.

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I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

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No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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