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

The moon (Luna) is the externalized dream. The sleepwalker is the platonic idea
of the dreamer.
Fear of gnats is the other side of the love for birds.
It is noteworthy that to the criminal, nothing happens.
The criminal overcomes fear through hate, not through love. For hate also
overcomes fear.
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Whoever loves dogs, not cats, has nothing of the dog, that is: The dog is conscious
in him, he embraces it like other objects, loves them, creates them anew, lives within
them, attends them.
The criminal liar dies through the inner snakebite, the occasional liar through the
outer (spatial) snakebite. But thereby the criminal has the hallucination of the
snakebite and dies from mistaken shock.
Morality is perpetually above the intellectual; for the sorcerer can know
everything, only not the Good (God, the idea).
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