Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend, by Otto ...

not determine ourselves from within; this last danger too, this last deceptive
appearance of autonomy, is to be avoided.
Will! that is: Will yourself entirely!
What is right in socialism is that every man should strive to seek and find, just as
his own self and particular nature, even yet his own property; and here his
possibilities must not be restricted from the very beginning from outside.
A man can be proud of acquired riches, and rightly look up to them as up to a
moral symbol of inner work, also.
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Psychologism 8 is the most comfortable conception of life, because according to it
there are no longer any more problems. That is why it also condemns all solutions
from the outset, since it acknowledges the actual problems as little as the idea of truth.
There is no such thing as chance. Chance would be a negation of the law of
causality, which demands that even the temporal meeting of two separate causal
chains still has a cause. Chance would destroy the possibility of life; it would call
back man, who is the only one ready to overcome evil, from his path. Chance would
make telepathy impossible, which is nonetheless a fact. It would nullify the
connectedness of things, the oneness of the universe. If there is chance, then there is
no God.
Love creates
Belief creates being
Hope creates
beauty
happiness
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but they all create life.
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Hate – hideous Pain is the mental
Unbelief – nothing correlate of destruction.
Fear – pain. (Sickness and death.)
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A theory that applies psychological conceptions to the interpretation of historical events or logical
thought. [Trans]
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