“To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...” Seagull

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it. Philosophical Fragments 

"Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much." Metamorphosis and Other Stories

“Neither the uneducated and uninformed of the truth, nor yet those who never make an end of their education, will be able ministers of State; not the former, because they have no single aim of duty which is the rule of all their actions, private as well as public; nor the latter, because they will not act at all except upon compulsion, fancying that they are already dwelling apart in the islands of the blest.” Republic