Franz Kafka Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

  Franz Kafka

  Eye, Order, Mind

• Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

  Franz Kafka

  Photography, Eye, Light

• For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

  Franz Kafka

  Eye, Brain, Watches

• It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

  Franz Kafka

  Heart, Eye, Presence Of Mind

  Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

• One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.

  Franz Kafka

  Strong, Mean, Eye

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

• Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.

  Franz Kafka

  Eye, Evil, Sensual

• Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

  Franz Kafka

  Eye, Discovery, Disappear

  Franz Kafka “Franz Kafka Vol 2”, Lulu.com

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