Zürau Aphorisms

Kafka fragment, 62.

Kafka – The Zürau Aphorisms

43. The dogs are still playing in the yard, but the quarry will not escape them, never mind how fast it is running through the forest already. 50. A man cannot live without a steady faith in something indestructible within

Friedrich Nietzsche – Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1879)

aphorism 201 “Philosophers’ error. – The philosopher supposes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the structure; but posterity finds its value in the stone which he used for building, and which is used many more times