Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
الحب بالنسبة لي هو أنك السكين التي أديرها مغروسة في داخلي
Like a Dog!
Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scien...
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague...
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)
Alle menschlichen Fehler sind Ungeduld, ein vorzeitiges Abbrechen des Methodischen, ein scheinbares Einpfählen der scheinbaren Sache.
my heart no longer beats but is a tugging muscle,
I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us...
Writing is prayer.
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.
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.
Those who are ignorant naturally consider everything possible.
It seemed to K. as if at last those people had broken off all relations with him, and as if now in reality he were freer than he had ever been, and at liberty to wait here in this place usually forbid...
