Investigations of a Dog Quotes

“عندما أكون وحدي أبكي مصيري ، تعالى فلعله يبعث عزاء أرقى في نفوسنا أن نبكي معا”
― فرانز كافكا, Investigations of a Dog

“The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs. That of course is only a figure of speech and exaggerated; if all teeth were but ready they would not need even to bite, the bones would crack themselves and the marrow would be freely accessible to the feeblest of dogs. If I remain faithful to this metaphor, then the goal of my aims, my questions, my inquiries, appears monstrous, it is true. For I want to compel all dogs thus to assemble together, I want the bones to crack open under the pressure of their collective preparedness, and then I want to dismiss them to the ordinary life they love, while all by myself, quite alone, I lap up the marrow. That sounds monstrous, almost as if I wanted to feed on the marrow, not merely of bone, but of the whole canine race itself. But it is only a metaphor. The marrow that I am discussing here is no food; on the contrary, it is a poison.”
― Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog

“Agreement is the best weapon of defense―and the matter would be buried.”
― Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog

“و من المحقق أن المعرفة تتقدم، فتقدمها لا يقاوم و هي تتقدم بالفعل بسرعة مضطردة، أكبر دائما، ولكن ماذا في هذا يستحق الثناء؟ ذلك تطور طبيعي بل و قبيح لا أمد فيه ما يشاد به، بوسعي أن أرى الاضمحلال في كل ما يقال فحسب، لكني في غمار فولي ذلك لا أقصد أن الأجيال السابقة كانت أفضل بصورة جوهرية من جيلنا، و إنما هي أكثر تفاهة، و قد كانت تلك ميزتها الكبرى، فلم تكن ذكراها مثقلة المهابة على نحو ما هي ذاكرتنا اليوم”
― فرانز كافكا, Investigations of a Dog

“If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.”
― Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog

“Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.”
― Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog

“Every dog has, as I do, the urge to question. And I, like all dogs, have the compulsion to be silent.”
― Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog

“Ciertamente, perros, pero no para morir aquí, sino para llegar allá, a la verdad, para salir de este mundo de mentiras, donde no se encuentra a nadie de quien obtener la verdad, tampoco de mi, ciudadano innato de la mentira”
― Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog

“How can you hold their silence against others, and keep silent yourself?”
― Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog

“I had long been running through the darkness, this way and that, guided by nothing but a vague yearning”
― Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog

“I will probably die in silence, surrounded by silence”
― Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog

“Gustavo Solivellas dice: "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" (Franz Kafka)”
― Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog