8 Franz Kafka Quotes on Knowledge

Franz Kafka quotes on knowledge

46. The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached.

47. We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

49. The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment - an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

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.

54. There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

60. The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

73. All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

115. We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.