Quotes for All
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy … Read more
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist. Ernest Rutherford
Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf’s kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine. Emmanuel des Essarts
There are two bodies – the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call \”death,\” is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design. Edgar Allan Poe
The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child. Friedrich Nietzsche
What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. Friedrich Nietzsche
Self-realization is a strange term. You don’t actually realize your ‘self’. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges – metamorphosis. Frederick Lenz
If I didn’t have my parents to think about I’d have given in my notice a long time ago, I’d have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He’d fall right off his desk! And it’s a funny … Read more
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug. Franz Kafka