7 Franz Kafka Quotes on Reality

Franz Kafka quotes on reality

4. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

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.

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

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.

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

107. The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life - the terror of art.

110. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.