Quote

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 scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

Franz Kafka

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
Aphorist
Claims Adjuster
Diarist
Fabulist
Lawyer
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Praha
František Kafka
Kafka
Every
Recognize
Disappears
Discovery
Ceases
Knowledge
Assumed
Eye
Trained
Sense
Total
Whole
Scientific
Must
Cease
Even
Disappear
Dissolves

More quotes by Franz Kafka

Image
We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
Franz Kafka
Image
His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.
Franz Kafka
Image
They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.
Franz Kafka
Image
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
Franz Kafka
Image
Religions get lost as people do.
Franz Kafka
Image
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well whichever you prefer.
Franz Kafka
Image
Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.
Franz Kafka
Image
If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.
Franz Kafka
Image
In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.
Franz Kafka
Image
The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.
Franz Kafka
Image
You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.
Franz Kafka
Image
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.
Franz Kafka
Image
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
Franz Kafka
Image
First impressions are always unreliable.
Franz Kafka
Image
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka
Image
Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
Franz Kafka
Image
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
Franz Kafka
Image
This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.
Franz Kafka
Image
The Bible is a sanctum the world, sputum.
Franz Kafka
Image
In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.
Franz Kafka