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

Vanity is : To want to count in the worth of the I what does not belong in the
worth of the I. Thus also with individuality. This takes for its credit what is the credit
of God.
The greater the work of art, the less chance is allowed to be there.
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The criminal wants no witnesses. For through the criminal method he hopes to win
and is defeated. Therefore he must kill all witnesses. They are all his doppelgangers.
Joy of the criminal in every crime.
The saint smiles without knowing why. He smiles unfreely. The saint is the most
unhappy person, though he seeks only happiness.
The corpse belongs to God and not the Devil.
The Devil is the man who has all but the Good, knows the whole of heaven
without Truth, while all exists only through the Good.
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