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  • #1
    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #2
    Franz Kafka
    “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #3
    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #4
    Franz 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 Kafka

  • #5
    Franz Kafka
    “Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #6
    Franz Kafka
    “I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
    Franz Kafka

  • #7
    Franz Kafka
    “From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
    Franz Kafka, The Trial

  • #8
    Franz Kafka
    “I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
    Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

  • #9
    Franz Kafka
    “Evil is whatever distracts.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #10
    Franz Kafka
    “One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else.”
    Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

  • #11
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #12
    G.K. Chesterton
    “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #13
    G.K. Chesterton
    “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #14
    G.K. Chesterton
    “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
    G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

  • #15
    G.K. Chesterton
    “How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #16
    G.K. Chesterton
    “We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.”
    G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910

  • #17
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

  • #18
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #19
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

  • #20
    G.K. Chesterton
    “We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.”
    G.K. Chesterton
    tags: fear, god

  • #21
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #22
    G.K. Chesterton
    “I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.”
    G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America

  • #23
    G.K. Chesterton
    “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #24
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
    G. K. Chesterton

  • #25
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #26
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
    G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery

  • #27
    G.K. Chesterton
    “In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #28
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #29
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #30
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy



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