All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.