meaning...

* What do I know about God and the purpose of life?
I know that this world exists.
That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field.
That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning.
This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it.
That life is the world.
That my will penetrates the world.
That my will is good or evil.
Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.
The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God.
And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.
To pray is to think about the meaning of life.
o Journal entry (11 June 1916), p. 72e and 73e

* To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
o Journal entry (8 July 1916), p. 74e

* There are two godheads: the world and my independent I.
I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist.
A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death.
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
o Journal entry (8 July 1916), p. 74e

* The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not "Life". And neither is psychological life. Life is the world.
Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic.
Ethics and Aesthetics are one.
o Journal entry (24 July 1916), p. 77e

* It is true: Man is the microcosm:
I am my world.
o Journal entry (12 October 1916), p. 84e

* What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.
o Journal entry (12 October 1916), p. 84e

* It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
o Journal entry (12 October 1916), p. 84e

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