Franz Kafka

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. ”

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. ”

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. ”

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. ”

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

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? ”

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. ”

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 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. ”

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ”