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.

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

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

Human 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.