21 quotes
""May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.""
- Franz Kafka
Love
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self."
- Franz Kafka
Self-awareness
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."
- Franz Kafka
Self-awareness
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
- Franz Kafka
Happiness
"“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”"
- Franz Kafka
Happiness
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."
- Franz Kafka
Integrity
"Dear nephew, as you will already have realized during our much too brief companionship, I am essentially a man of principle."
- Franz Kafka
Integrity
"Don’t bend, don’t water it down, don’t try to make it logical, don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion."
- Franz Kafka
Integrity
"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
- Franz Kafka
Personal Growth
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
- Franz Kafka
Belief in Self
"So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being."
- Franz Kafka
Contentment
"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
- Franz Kafka
Wisdom
"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."
- Franz Kafka
Taking Risks
"Paths are made by walking."
- Franz Kafka
Taking Risks
"Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence."
- Franz Kafka
Self-improvement
""Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.""
- Franz Kafka
Productivity
"Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
- Franz Kafka
Boldness
"Don’t bend, don’t water it down, don’t try to make it logical, don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
- Franz Kafka
Boldness
"So long as you have food in your mouth you have solved all questions for the time being."
- Franz Kafka
Philosophy
"The meaning of life is that it stops."
- Franz Kafka
Philosophy
"In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world."
- Franz Kafka
Philosophy