Franz Kafka Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Evil is whatever distracts.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Literature, Madness

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

• When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

  Franz Kafka

  Mean, Evil, Trying

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

  Franz Kafka

  Philosophical, Sleep, Men

• There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, Evil, World

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

• When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Demand, Accepted

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

• The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Whiplash, Motive

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

• 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”

• One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

  Franz Kafka

  Women, Struggle, Mean

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

• Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.

  Franz Kafka

  Eye, Evil, Sensual

• Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Deception, Trying

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

• Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

  Franz Kafka

  Sky, Evil, Starry Sky

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

• The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
  The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Order, Knowing

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

• The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Evil, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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