By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Franz Kafka

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Franz Kafka

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Franz Kafka

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

Franz Kafka

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Franz Kafka

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

Franz Kafka

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Franz Kafka

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Franz Kafka

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

Franz Kafka

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Franz Kafka

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Franz Kafka

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Franz Kafka

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Franz Kafka

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Franz Kafka