"A man once said: Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables you yourselves would
become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.
Another said: I bet that is also a parable.
The first said: You have won.
The second said: But unfortunately only in parable.
The first said: No, in reality: in parable you have lost. "
"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. "
"The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master’s whiplash. "
"Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the
sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it
can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony."
- Aphorisms 20 (10 November 1917)
"Previously I did not understand why I got no answer to my question;
today I do not understand how I could believe I was capable of asking.
But I didn’t really believe, I only asked."
“I am not punctual because I do not feel the pains of waiting. I wait like an ox…I have been late for appointments partly out of carelessness, partly out of ignorance of the pains of waiting…”
Franz Kafka, Diaries
"For if I feel a purpose in my momentary existence, even a very uncertain one, I am so vain in my weakness that i would gladly bear anything for the sake."
become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.
Another said: I bet that is also a parable.
The first said: You have won.
The second said: But unfortunately only in parable.
The first said: No, in reality: in parable you have lost. "
"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. "
"The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master’s whiplash. "
"Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the
sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it
can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony."
- Aphorisms 20 (10 November 1917)
"Previously I did not understand why I got no answer to my question;
today I do not understand how I could believe I was capable of asking.
But I didn’t really believe, I only asked."
“I am not punctual because I do not feel the pains of waiting. I wait like an ox…I have been late for appointments partly out of carelessness, partly out of ignorance of the pains of waiting…”
Franz Kafka, Diaries
"For if I feel a purpose in my momentary existence, even a very uncertain one, I am so vain in my weakness that i would gladly bear anything for the sake."