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

possibilities. The ideas of freedom and totality are thus identical!
Unity and totality within the horizon.
Space as the I.
Chance hangs together with incarnation.
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It is not at all true that all human action proceeds from the desire for pleasure. All
action of the good person proceeds from what one can call worth, or existence, or life.
Pleasure is only the profession of life!
Vacillation among Schopenhauer and Fechner. Both fail to understand that the
ethical and the basis of the world lie in that series upon which the “pleasure – pain”
series is dependent: the series of “good – evil”. The “pleasure – pain” series runs
parallel with it, but is of a yet secondary nature in relation to it.
How is desire related to life? The demand of life is desire!
Desire is to life as punishment is to guilt (as pain to death).
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