Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster

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.

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.