Murray Porter

“Judgement does not come suddenly; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right

“These dictates of Reason, men use to call by the name of Lawes; but improperly: for they are but Conclusions, or Theoremes concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas Law, properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others. But yet if we consider the same Theoremes, as delivered in the word of God, that by right commandeth all things; then are they properly called Lawes.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Next time I come here," he said to himself, "I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial