Franz Kafka on believe
“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka What am I doing here in this endless winter?
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka First impressions are always unreliable.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Books are a narcotic.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick GregoryDick Gregory I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be.
Chris BrownChris Brown I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight D. Eisenhower Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
Dick GregoryDick Gregory I don’t believe in dining on an empty stomach.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Alexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton
