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

The Devil takes revenge on God for being created by Him.
He is the person who smugly takes pleasure in his existence and influence,
without believing that this influence is only serving the Good.
Judaism is the greatest evil of all.
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The criminal is impotent like the saint; he is only mentally sexual, he couples. The
neurasthenic is always strongly potent, because his evil is physical, spatial.
The complete criminal is, in the wider sense, more evil than the neurasthenic and
finally also falls ill.
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The plant is the neurasthenic; it quivers (the criminal clacks and chatters his
teeth). It is unseparated due to cell walls; i.e., unity is here, but no completeness; no
movement (i.e. spatial determinedness, remains fixed to a place, sin of space), no
sense organs.
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Animals and plants are the unconscious in man.
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Man meets with that which has become unconsious to him, as the unfree, again in
feeling. There is no chance, only justice.
The snake in the railway carriage, to where it has gotten itself, is the lie set
outwards (forked tongue, shedding of skin, strabismus divergens 31 ), which is feared
by the person who steps in; it draws the nearer to him, the sooner he is willing to
capitulate to the lie: it drags his cowardice after it.
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strabismus: failure of the eyes to align properly on the object toward which a person seeks to direct
his gaze. [Trans]
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