on suicide implied by thought
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The ordinary man, however hard his life may be, at least has the pleasure of not thinking about it. To take life as it comes, living it externally like a cat or a dog - that is how people in general live, and that is how life should be lived, if we would have the contentment of the cat or dog.
To think is to destroy. Thought itself is destroyed in the process of thinking, because to think is to decompose. If men knew how to meditate on the mystery of life, if they knew how to feel the thousand complexities which spy on the soul in every single detail of action, then they would never act - they wouldn’t even live. They would kill themselves from fright, like those who commit suicide to avoid being guillotined the next day.
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