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Light Quotes by Franz Kafka
- A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
- 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…
- 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…
- All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could…
- Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming…
- He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than…
- Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
- Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where…
- People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the…
- I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete…
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- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann