“Evil is a radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions.”

— Franz Kafka , book The Zürau Aphorisms

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: 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.

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