All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

I carry the bars within me.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)