"Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs..." - Quote by Franz Kafka

“You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.”

“Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.”

“I do not see the world at all; I invent it.”

“Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine.”

“He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.”

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

“Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.”

“Friendship buys friendship.”

“The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.”