Franz Kafka Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

  Franz Kafka

  Sleep, Trying, Going To Sleep

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

• What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Fate, Men

  "The Metamorphosis". Book by Franz Kafka, 1915.

• In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Doe, Paradise

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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