July 30, 2026

1 Goethe recognizes that behind many things there are certain primary phenomena; those phenomena also express themselves, they are not entirely hidden; what would Goethe say about quantum mechanics, about modern metaphysics?

2 Resentment toward others arises from a personal confinement, but it is aimed at others as an accusation. It comes from a chrysalis state, but instead of breaking one’s own cocoon, one imagines that state is the world’s responsibility; the error must occur, and this is the hypothesis, because we have not yet learned to distinguish two kinds of empirical world, since in the end both limits surround us: the pupa we are inside and the world.

3 Goethe was interested in human experiences, and in knowing the world by becoming aware of these experiences; he did not want to doubt them too much; «this may be what distances him from the sciences»¹; but what about the experimental confirmation of things we experience and don’t know how, and cannot even understand afterward, even if they are experimentally confirmed?

4 With great human beings, the most we can do is give them the place that belongs to them, give them their place.

5 That external-cocoon world that limits us and also separates us from the external world not only shuts us in, it also protects us from the rest of the world; a human being who lives in there for a long time surely gets sick, but at the same time must be developing very fine capacities; it is the price paid by anyone who wants to develop the capacity to fly farther, and values it more than the capacity to fly; in a writer that is a gift to humanity, but in practice the others will see it as wrong, even as their worst enemy.

And did humanity not cultivate «since the dawn of time»² that sacrifice? Was it not always related to death?

6 The anti-tragic tries to recover the share of gain in every experience that is also loss; the universe is a house that loses nothing.

7 On the question of whether the human being has one talent from which sub-talents branch off, or several. The human being has a single force, which is why leaving things for later, or placing an emphasis on something in life, is always tied to a cost; «the universe is a house that loses nothing»³ and the human being has a few force-hours. Emphasis is paid for out of that, and so is the notion of sacrifice.

8 The artist who endlessly goes on refining his wings in potential ends up expressing that refinement only through his mouth; hence, with those modules, it is later best for him to make a work of art, so as to be able to build, in an empirical body, those ultra-physical relations which otherwise, as Goethe clearly saw, others end up using without thanking him for them.

«If one were to build a city in a novel, one would have had to sleep and dream in each and every one of the houses, and then leave all that behind, forget it, and let it ferment.» Jünger says this in some of his diaries.

These are the modules that today, in a time of transition, are still not tied down; it is what characterizes every prehistoric age, before a new historical cycle begins: our age is titanic, and this is what makes it titanic.

9 There are no laws, not even in nature, except the limit imposed on us by the fact that everything is 0. Hence relativity, and hence every emphasis comes with a cost or sacrifice. The human being, too, has only one force.

Even Socrates had doubts about whether the human being has one talent or several; this happens to us because from birth we get used to certain names and labels; in particular, we become accustomed to «seeing» 1 as complete and fail to recognize 0 as more complete. But the dimensions of the cosmos «in which we think we live» keep expanding.

Could it be that only because we overvalue 1 can we conclude that dimensions are multiple? This speaks in favor of the idea that we project the limits ourselves; beginning and end are also «human, all too human.»