Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.
Franz KafkaIf they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.
Franz KafkaKnowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.
Franz KafkaHuman judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.
Franz Kafka