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

Sickness is dependence on the body – crime dependence on the soul.
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Even short-sightedness would allow its cure, if one would recognize its cause.
The greatest criminal invariably dies of heart attack (fear).
The problem of the sick person is the problem of space.
The problem of the criminal is the problem of time.
The problem of animal psychology is the problem of chance, the problem of
externalisation; because when fly-likeness is unconscious in me (that is, I become
unfree against it, the fly appears against which I am unfree in feeling), space is still
there in the same moment.
The body is not immoral but the skin. It is the peril of the body, the place where it
yields to space, is vulnerable, soilable, infectible.
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Space comes into being through the making not-real of a real, just as with sickness
(through the surrender of a part of the I to the outside, incapacity for totality).
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Time (crime) is the setting as real of the not-real: separation of a past, that has
been given power, and a future over which no power is wanted, from the present,
which is thus no longer eternity . . . Just as with crime: the setting as real, actualising,
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