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.
Franz KafkaSometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.
Franz KafkaThe right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
Franz KafkaThere are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.
Franz Kafka