Quote of the day by Franz Kafka: ‘By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it,’ and why imagination is the first step towards innovation

Quote of the day by Franz Kafka “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it.” — Franz KafkEvery invention, every work of art and every social movement begins in a place that nobody else can see. Before there is a bridge, someone pictures a way across the river. Before a vaccine exists, someone believes a disease can be defeated. Before a novel reaches readers, it spends years as scattered thoughts inside one person's mind. The world changes because people allow themselves to take ideas seriously long before those ideas have any physical form. That is the promise contained in this line attributed to Franz Kafka. Imagination is not an escape from reality. It is where many realities first begin.Kafka understood what it meant to live between the ordinary and the possible. By day he worked in an insurance office in Prague. By night he wrote stories unlike anything his contemporaries had produced, stories that would influence literature for generations even though he never lived to see most of them published. Whether he was writing about strange trials, impossible transformations or invisible systems of power, he trusted that ideas could travel much fu...