Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I’d like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.
The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka’s posthumous death begins.
The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!
Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.
A man able to think isn’t defeated – even when he is defeated.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?
I find myself fascinating.
Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.
When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
Today we’re all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.
The eye the point where a person’s identity is concentrated.
No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.
A worker may be the hammer’s master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.