3 Franz Kafka Quotes on Control

Franz Kafka quotes on control

19. 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.

26. It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

52. Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.