Franz Kafka Quotes

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Franz Kafka

Profession : Novelist

Birth : July 3, 1883

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

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.

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.

Franz Kafka

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Franz Kafka

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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.

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.

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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Franz Kafka