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

All sympathy is thoroughly the will for pleasure and is thus immoral, because in
sympathy pleasure is directly striven for in place of worth.
Sympathy is immoral (let alone the foundation of morality) because it lies exactly
within the “pleasure-sorrow” series, and not within the “worth-nothing” series, to
which it is functionally tied. (Pleasure is dependent on conditions, worth is never
dependent on conditions.) Pain is here no doubt directly seen, but negated; and
pleasure directly willed, without affirming worth, as in respect.
Cruelty: the desire to make pain real (to exclusive reality), instead of placing
desire with “freedom-worth”.
Schopenhauer (whose Nirvana is as but the sole reality, sufferinglessness ,
overcoming of one’s own inhumanity) and Fechner are opposites within the same
rank. As the essence of the world, both find always only pleasure and pain elements.
Fechner is just the reverse of Schopenhauer; for one only pain was real, for the other
only pleasure.
All cruel people have a uniquely pained face; because their being signifies
precisely the condition of pain. Also the ascetic (Pascal).
Impudent: for non-estimation of Something.
Courage is the correlate of truth. It is the esteem-for-nothing of Nothing.
Cowardice is the esteem-for-something of Nothing.
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