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

Punishment is to guilt as desire to worth, as desirelessness to worthlessness.
Man’s want does not proceed from desire; it proceeds from that which others, and
myself, have called worth, life or existence or reality. Desire is bound to this worth
and is never directly attained, but only through it.
Woman reaches as far as desire, but not to value. She reaches as far as sympathy,
but not respect. High respect for man: “moral” claim of masculine women?
As with desire and worth, so is the sun to the stars.
Desire and worth are identical in the deepest sense. They meet in the concept of
the Good. And the Good is God!
In relation to the ethical, chance is overcome.
To know through classification is still immoral.
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Boredom and impatience are the most immoral emotions there can be. For man
sets time as real in them: he wants it to pass without him having to fill it, without it
being mere phenomenal form of his inner liberation and extension, mere form in
which he must strive to be realised, but rather independent from him, and he
dependent on it. Boredom is at the same time the need to annul time from outside, and
the longing for the devil’s work.
Just as a harsh noise or foul odour which I myself have caused does not pain me
so as when the same is produced by another, so can one also imagine that God
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