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

Quote by Franz Kafka

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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you...

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you...

Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again...

Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again...

Religions get lost as people do.

Religions get lost as people do.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for...

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for...

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one...

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one...

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to...

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to...

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

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

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet...

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet...

Evil is whatever distracts.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There...

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There...

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.