It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. – Franz Kafka
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. – Franz Kafka
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. – Franz Kafka
The relationship to ones fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for ones striving. – Franz Kafka
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin