#will

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#ecstasy #even #feet #freely #itself

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#ecstasy #even #feet #house #itself

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#bunch #dramatically #i #i believe #i believe that

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#innovation #live #looks #make #part

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#capita #continue #each #ever #fighting

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#eventually #false #history #indication #out

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#fail #hard #hard work #make #most

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. ↗

— Bob Kane

#art #batman #city #i #i am

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#begets #ennobling #even #evil #forgetting

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#because #being #danger #did #during