Famous Quotes | But eternity is not temporality...
But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.
- Franz Kafka
Attribution: Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Fourth Notebook, February 8, 1918. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).
Categories: Author, Eternity, Time
