"In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one – yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God."

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Source: Erich Heller (1975). “Franz Kafka”, Viking Pr

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Erich Heller

Philosopher, Writer

Erich Heller was a prominent philosopher and writer known for his exploration of freedom and identity, particularly in his influential works on existentialism.

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