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.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.