Franz Kafka Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“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.”

“He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.”

“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”

“We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.”

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

“If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.”

“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

“A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.”

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