Franz Kafka

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. ”

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me. ”

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. ”

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 relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving. ”

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”