Franz Reichelt Quotes

In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped to test his invention
he expected to fly
but instead he fell straight down, hitting the ground like a meteor and leaving a 5.9-inch-deep crater from the impact. Did he mean to kill himself? Doubtful. I think he was just cocky, and also stupid. ~ Jennifer Niven

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things. ~ Franz Von Papen

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible. ~ Franz Kafka

I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word. ~ Raymond Franz

Writer speaks a stench. ~ Franz Kafka

Isolation is a way to know ourselves ~ Franz Kafka

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. ~ Franz Schubert

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'. ~ Franz Kafka

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill ~ Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ~ Franz Kafka

The only explanation I can suggest is that for Franz, love was not an extension of public life but its antithesis. It meant a longing to put himself in the mercy of his partner. He who gives himself up his weapons as well. And deprived in advance of defense against a possible blow, he cannot help wondering when the blow will fall. That is why I can say that for Franz, love meant the constant expectation of a blow. ~ Milan Kundera

Religions get lost as people do. ~ Franz Kafka

You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone. ~ Franz Kafka

You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely new is the most transitory of all things. It is beautiful today, and tomorrow merely ludicrous. ~ Franz Kafka

Without any way out, not even toward the depth. ~ Franz Kafka

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. ~ Franz Liszt

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best. ~ Franz Grillparzer

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with. ~ Franz Liszt

I can never tear myself open wide enough to people to reveal everything and so frighten them away. ~ Franz Kafka

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. ~ Franz Kafka

If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and force it into consciousness. Just let it live with you, leaving it in the half-dark, carry it with you and watch where it is going or what it is driving at. ~ Marie-Louise Von Franz

One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else. ~ Franz Kafka

Illusions are more common than changes in fortune ~ Franz Kafka

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further. ~ Franz Kafka

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along. ~ Franz Grillparzer

As they proceeded; still Franz and the count were compelled to advance in a stooping posture, and were scarcely able to proceed abreast of one another. They went on a hundred and fifty paces in this way, and then were stopped by, "Who comes there?" At the same time they saw the reflection of a torch on a carbine barrel. "A friend!" responded Peppino; and, advancing alone towards the sentry, he said a few words to him in a low tone; and then he, like the first, saluted the nocturnal visitors, making a sign that they might proceed. Behind the sentinel was a staircase with twenty steps. Franz and ~ Alexandre Dumas

After all, one does not laugh at senator's nephew at the first opportunity that presents itself. ~ Franz Kafka

Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need not become a hermit to achieve this goal, for it is neither ecstasy nor world-estranged mysticism his era demands, but a balance between quantitative and qualitative reality. Modern man, with his reduced capacity for intuitive perception, is unlikely to benefit from the contemplative life of a hermit in the wilderness. But what he can do is to give undivided attention, at times, to a natural phenomenon, observing it in detail, and recalling all the scientific facts about it he may remember. Gradually, however, he must silence his thoughts and, for moments at least, forget all his personal cares and desires, until nothing remains in his soul but awe for the miracle before him. Such efforts are like journeys beyond the boundaries of narrow self-love and, although the process of intuitive awakening is laborious and slow, its rewards are noticeable from the very first. If pursued through the course of years, something will begin to stir in the human soul, a sense of kinship with the forces of life consciousness which rule the world of plants and animals, and with the powers which determine the laws of matter. While analytical intellect may well be called the most precious fruit of the Modern Age, it must not be allowed to rule supreme in matters of cognition. If science is to bring happiness and real progress to the world, it needs the warmth of man's heart ~ Franz Winkler

Whatever he may seem to us, he is yet a servant of the Law; that is, he belongs to the Law and as such is set beyond human judgment. ~ Franz Kafka

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority. ~ Franz Boas

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics. ~ Franz Werfel

If he stayed at home and carried on with his normal life he would be a thousand times superior to these people and could get any of them out of his way just with a kick. ~ Franz Kafka

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present. ~ Franz Grillparzer

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. ~ Franz Boas

Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated ~ Franz Kafka

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity. ~ Franz Kafka

Kafka regarded the end of "The Metamorphosis"- its composition in interrupted by a business trip- as "unreadable." He also wrote in his diary that he found it"bad," but of course Kafka relished his failure. Failure is precisely what he expected and resolved to accomplish- and he hid behind it. ~ Franz Kafka

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. ~ Franz Kafka

Never wear anything on the road you wouldnt wear at home. ~ Franz Wisner

The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey. ~ Franz Kafka

You need not even listen, just wait ... the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. ~ Franz Kafka

Enlightenment comes to the most dull-witted. It begins around the eyes. From there it radiates. ~ Franz Kafka

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In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion. ~ Franz Kafka