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Will, the fundamental force in the world, is sexual drive, and it is eternal. Death, which means both castrated living and excrement, is the reward of sexuality; guilt feels it to be just. Conflict is overcome not by defying death but by acquiescing in it: castration is accepted; a return is made to nothingness, to the womb, in the form of excrement. Beauty and philosophy are the forms in which this resolution manifests itself. With beauty this is because the feeling for it is based upon repression of its opposite, ugliness and dirt. With philosophy, in which the process is more complicated, there is the highest manifestation of will, i.e. sublimated sexuality, expressed by the archetype; and this at the same time acts as a quieter of the will and is outside space and time and the course of life, so that it expresses castration—the archetype fuses lust and castration. Thus philosophy's muse is death.
The forms of the Principle of Sufficient Reason mean the origin of babies, unsanctioned knowledge about the process, desire to produce them, and living in the child. The Principle in general means the way of gaining knowledge of the archetype. The fourfold scheme of philosophy signifies creation, the urge to it, the resolution of conflict in the archetype, and renunciation.