bread, to the “unutterable!” Being that is founded on many such unutterable things is therefore itself something unutterable. It is indeed the ineffable. Where words cease, life first begins; and the secret of being is first disclosed.” [179F-PPF: p. 43-44]
[180F-PPF: p. 47]
“ … that which God is the neo-Platonist strives to become; the goal of his activity is to cease “being a self, mind, and reason.” Ecstasy or rapture is for the neo-Platonist the highest psychological state of man.” [180F-PPF: p. 47]
[181F-PPF: p. 47-48]
[P. 47] “ … God is derived only from man … . This is shown [P. 48] with particular clarity also in the Neo-Platonists’ determination of God as the self-sufficient and blissful being, for where else than in the pains and needs of man does this being who is without pain and without needs have its ground and origin? With the lack of need and pain, the imagination and feeling of bliss also collapse. Only in contrast to misery is bliss a reality. Only in man’s wretchedness does God have his birthplace.” [181F-PPF: p. 48]
[182F-PPF: p. 54]
“The heart does not want abstract, metaphysical, or theological objects; it wants real and sensuous objects and beings.” [182F-PPF: p. 54]
[183F-PPF: p. 55]
“The new philosophy … is the open-hearted and sensuous philosophy. (…) … only the sensuous is clear as daylight; all doubt and dispute cease only where sensation begins. The secret of immediate knowledge is sensation (…) Something is true … only when it is no longer mediated, but immediate.” [183F-PPF: p. 55]
[184F-PPF: p. 56]
“Who can elevate mediation to a necessity and to a law of truth? Only he who … still struggles and quarrels with himself, and who still has not completely made up his mind; in short, only he in whom truth is only talent, … but not genius and a matter of the whole man. Genius is immediate, sensuous knowledge. What talent has only in the head genius has in the flesh and blood; namely that which for talent is still an object of thought is for genius an object of the senses.” [184F-PPF: p. 56]
[185F-PPF: p. 60-61]
[P. 60] “Space and time are not mere forms of appearance; they are conditions of being, forms of reason, and laws of existence as well as of thought.. [P. 61] (…) Limitation in space and time is the first virtue … .” [185F-PPF: p. 60-61]
