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The Zürau Aphorisms QUOTES

The Zürau Aphorisms QUOTES

1 " He has the feeling that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way. From this sense of hindrance, in turn, he deduces the proof that he is alive. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

2 " The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

3 " There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

4 " Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

5 " The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because heaven means precisely: the impossibility of crows. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

6 " You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world — that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature — but perhaps that withdrawal is the only suffering you might be able to avoid. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

7 " In the struggle between yourself and the world, hold the world’s coat. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

8 " Why then do you fear love in particular more than earthly existence in general?” Kafka replied as if from an astral distance: “You write: ‘Why be more afraid of love than of other things in life?’ And just before that: ‘I experienced the intermittently divine for the first time, and more frequently than elsewhere, in love.’ If you conjoin these two sentences, it’s as if you had said: ‘Why not fear every bush in the same way that you fear the burning bush? "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

9 " Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida está dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible muy lejos. Sin embargo está ahí, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto, Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

10 " We are instructed to do the negative; the positive is already within us. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

11 " Alle menschlichen Fehler sind Ungeduld, ein vorzeitiges Abbrechen des Methodischen, ein scheinbares Einpfählen der scheinbaren Sache. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

12 " For Kafka, paradise wasn’t a place where people lived in the past and of which a memory has survived, but rather a perennial, hidden presence. In every moment, an immense, encompassing obstacle prevents us from seeing it. That obstacle is nothing other than the expulsion from paradise—a process Kafka called “eternal in its principal aspect. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

13 " Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

14 " Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

15 " 48 Belief in progress doesn’t mean belief in progress that has already occurred. That would not require belief. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

16 " In the struggle between yourself
and the world, second the world.

(Im Kampf zwischen Dir
und der Welt, sekundiere der Welt) "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

17 " Ihminen valehtelee mahdollisimman vähän vain valehdellessaan mahdollisimman vähän, ei silloin kun hänellä on siihen vähiten tilaisuuksia. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

18 " Wir wurden geschaffen, um im Paradies zu leben, das Paradies war bestimmt, uns zu dienen. Unsere Bestimmung ist geändert worden; daß dies auch mit des Bestimmung des Paradieses geschehen wäre, wird nicht gesagt. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

19 " Все человеческие ошибки суть нетерпение, преждевременный отказ от методичности, мнимая сосредоточенность на мнимом деле. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms

20 " Itsen ja maailman välisessä kamppailussa on parempi olla maailman aseenkantaja. "

― Franz Kafka , The Zürau Aphorisms