Franz Kafka Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.”

“The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.”

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

“No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.”

“The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.”