The Nightmare of Reason Quotes

“Common consensus is not thought but wishful thinking.”
― Ernst Pawel, The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka

“Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of prayer”: he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life.”
― Ernst Pawel, The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka