Livets Bog, vol. 2
If the basic solution to the mystery of life No. 1 did not exist.
575. It is a fact of life that a living being constitutes – not a "nothing" – but a "something" which can only determine this first basic element of life's mystery to be an advantage. For if the opposite were the case it must certainly mean that a "nothing" would thrive where now life and consciousness are flourishing.