Faith Means The Will To Avoid Knowing

There Are Preachers Of Death: And The Earth Is Full Of Those To Whom Desistance From Life Must Be Preached.

Never To Read Another Book That Was Born And Baptized (with Ink) At The Same Time.

That The World Is Not The Embodiment Of An Eternal Rationality Can Be Conclusively Proved By The Fact That The Piece Of The Worldthat We Know--i Mean Our Human Reason--is Not So Very Rational. And If It Is Not Eternally And Completely Wise And Rational, Then The Rest Of The World Will Not Be Either; Here The Conclusion A Minori Ad Majus, A Parte Ad Totum Applies, And Does So With Decisive Force.

I Go In Solitude, So As Not To Drink Out Of Everybody's Cistern. When I Am Among The Many I Live As The Many Do, And I Do Not Think I Really Think; After A Time It Always Seems As If They Want To Banish Myself From Myself And Rob Me Of My Soul.

... Art Approaches As A Saving Sorceress, Expert At Healing. She Alone Knows How To Turn These Nauseous Thoughts About The Horror Or Absurdity Of Existence Into Notions With Which One Can Live.