Erich Heller Quotes

United Kingdom, Essayist
March 27, 1911 – November, 5, 1990.

Erich Heller was a British essayist, known particularly for his critical studies in German-language philosophy and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute.

Erich Heller
- World
- Mind
- Part
Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

Erich Heller
- World
- Careful
- Interpret

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.

Erich Heller
- World
- God
- Mind