"What is meant by its nature for..." - Quote by Franz Kafka

“Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.”

“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”

“A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.”

“The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.”

“What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.”

“Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand”

“Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.”

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”

“For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.”