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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. — Franz Boas

It is the greenback which is unstable, and not bullion. — Franz Pick

There are no limits, and that applies to everyone on earth. — Franz Bardon

You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair. — Franz Kafka

The meaning of life is that it ends. — Franz Kafka

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived. — Franz Kafka

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

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death. — Franz Lehar

Bonds are guaranteed certificates of confiscation — Franz Pick

Only the moment counts. It determines life. — Franz Kafka

Don't concern yourself about anybody. Just do what you think is right. — Franz Kafka

His last words to Robert Klopstock are 'Kill me, or you are a murderer. — Franz Kafka

You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. — Franz Kafka

There is infinite hope, but not for man. — Franz Kafka

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it. — Franz Grillparzer

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. — Franz Kafka

With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity. — Franz Stampfl

Therefore remember: Always fall asleep with peaceful and harmonious thoughts or with thoughts of success, health and inner peacefulness. — Franz Bardon

But all remains unchanged. — Franz Kafka

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark — Franz Kafka

If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for. — Franz Kafka

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum. — Franz Kafka

Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night. — Franz Kafka

They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ... — Franz Kafka

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. — Franz Kafka

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road. — Franz Kafka

And yet the fear! — Franz Kafka

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt. — Franz Kafka

The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage. — Franz Stampfl

Everyone has his cross to bear. — Franz Kafka

Sometimes I'm overcome with such an aversion to human beings that I can barely refrain from retching. — Franz Kafka

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered. — Franz Grillparzer

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations. — Franz Grillparzer

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility. — Franz Grillparzer

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love. — Franz Schubert

You belong to me, even if I should never see you again. — Franz Kafka

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother. — Franz Grillparzer

I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer. — Franz Kafka

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux. — Franz Wright

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed. — Franz Kafka

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is? — Franz Grillparzer

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life. — Franz Kafka

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. — Franz Kafka

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche? — Franz Wright

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. — Franz Kafka

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. — Franz Kafka

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil. — Franz Kafka

I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end. — Franz Kafka

Isolation is a way to know ourselves — Franz Kafka

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

But sometimes I really felt as though the starry sky rose and fell with the gasping of his chest. — Franz Kafka

You misinterpret everything, even the silence. — Franz Kafka

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill. — Franz Grillparzer

The entire universe can be compared to a clockwork with wheels that engage with each other and which are interdependent with each other. — Franz Bardon

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? — Franz Kline

Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years. — Hermann Maier

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

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms. — Franz Kline

The road to Emmaus is this world. — Franz Wright

But now you must give me your hand, an agreement of this sort needs to be confirmed with a handshake. Will she shake hands with me? — Franz Kafka

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old. — Franz Kafka

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame. — Franz Grillparzer

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself. — Franz Grillparzer

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. — Franz Schubert

The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light. — Franz Kafka

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters. — Franz Kafka

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy. — Franz Grillparzer

What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart! — Franz Schubert

All that you are seeking is also seeking you — Franz Kafka

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house. — Franz Grillparzer

A man doesn't need to fly to the sun, he need only find a patch of clean earth, and crawl there, and let the sun shine on him. — Franz Kafka

Religions get lost as people do. — Franz Kafka

But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end? — Franz Kafka

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. — Franz Schubert

Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us. — Franz Werfel

I passed by the brothel as though
past the house of a beloved. — Franz Kafka

His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate. — Franz Kafka

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. — Franz Kafka

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness." Franz Kafka — Jason Harvey

Writing is a prayer. — Franz Kafka

Prose talks and poetry sings. — Franz Grillparzer

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess
there is something more dashing about a man. — Franz Grillparzer

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful. — Franz Liszt

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. — Franz Kafka

It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

I asked myself at the time: how is it that she is not astonished at herself, that she keeps her mouth closed, and expresses nothing of any wonderment? — Franz Kafka

Love brings to life whatever is dead around us. — Franz Rosenzweig

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty. — Franz Kafka

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal. — Franz Grillparzer

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. — Franz Kafka

He had vented all his woes and now they might as well see the few rags that covered his body, after which they could carry him away. — Franz Kafka

I can never tear myself open wide enough to people to reveal everything and so frighten them away. — Franz Kafka

I am a cage, in search of a bird. — Franz Kafka

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part. — Franz Grillparzer

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. — Franz Schubert

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts. — Dennis Franz

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit. — Franz Liszt

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver. — Franz Kafka

A love that dies has never lived. — Franz Grillparzer