One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.
Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.
The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.
One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
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.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.
Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.
You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.
We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.
The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.
If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?
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.
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