"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only..." - Quote by Franz Kafka

“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”

“Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”

“It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.”

“The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.”

“Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.”

“There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.”

“What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.”

“Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.”

“The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.”