Adam

animalizing

anthropomorphization

Being

Bible

book

bureaucracy

cage

cheating

citizen

contradiction

day of judgement

death

drugs

error

evil

faith

fall of man

fear of death

felicity

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gesture

goodness

guilt

happiness

heaven

humility

identity politics

idleness

impatience

intoxication

isolation

jargon

judgment

language

last judgment

lawyer

love

lover

lying

magic

martyr

meaning

meaning of life

non-existent

object

opponent

paradise

path

photography

possession

prayer

priest

problem

productivity

progress

question

reading

reality

religion

revolution

security

self

self-destruction

signification

simile

sleep

snake

spirit

story

suffering

suicide

time

Tower of Babel

truth

understanding

universe

world

writer

writing

youth

nationality

Austrian

Hungarian

occupation / innovator as

novelist

existentialist philosopher

short story writer

innovator in the field of

existentialism

existentialist philosophy

Literature of the Absurd

fabulist

intellectual movement

Czech

Modernist literature

aphorist

translator

poet lawyer

diarist

screenwriter

prosaist

atheism

cause of death

natural causes

race / ethnicity

Ashkenazi Jews

claims adjuster

is humane and anthropomorphizing is animal.

To Animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

The Bible is a sanctum... the world, sputum. (Franz Kafka)

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is an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. (Franz Kafka)

is sometimes like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle.

is closer to original human nature than any other social institution.

That is why, for Kafka, bureaucracy is 'closer to original human nature than any other social institution' (letter to Oscar Baum, June 1922): what is this 'original human nature' if not the fact that man is from the start a 'parlêtre [speaking-being]'' And what is the super-ego the functioning mode of bureaucratic knowledge if not, according to Jacques-Alain Miller, what 'presentifies' under the pure form of the signifier as the cause of the division of the subject... in

is not just a late development, nor simply a negative phenomenon. It is closer to original human nature than any other social institution.

Incidentally, I would not that for Kafka bureaucracy is not simply a late development (as though the gods, the first forces, were pitifully ending their reign by becoming functionaries) nor simply a negative phenomenon, any more than is exegesis in relation to speech. To his friend Oskar Baum he writes the following, which demands reflection: 'Bureaucracy, if I judge it from my own perspective, is closer to original human nature than any other social institution.' (This in a letter of June 1922, the period of The Castle).

is the very essence of irrational obsequiousness and inefficiency, dysfunctional precisely because of its insistence on hierarchies.

the very essence of irrational obsequiousness and inefficiency, dysfunctional precisely because of its insistence on hierarchies and its ...

is only possible to speak of by that name because of our concept of time. In reality it is a constant court in perpetual session.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgement by that name... in reality it is a constant court in perpetual session. Franz Kafka

is a cheat on one's loneliness. It is all one has, and that returns to one as soon as the drugs and alcohol dissipate.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness it is all that I have and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. (Franz Kafka)

my peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication, it makes them sociable. i, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness, it is all that i have, and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

is the 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.

Evil is the 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.

is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

faith is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

is often attributable to one having not yet lived.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived. Franz Kafka

my guiding principle is this: guilt is never to be doubted.

is theoretically possible if one believes in the indestructible element in oneself and does not strive towards it.

Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. (Franz Kafka)

is that which provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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