This collection of old and new aphorisms - a selection authorized by the author in its final form - brings together Karlheinz Deschner's favorites, some of which have already become part of the general lexicon, from the fields of "Spirit and Art," "Humanity and Life," "History and Politics," "Society, Law, Nature," as well as "Religion and Clergy" and "About Myself." In his favorite genre, discovered only after mid-life - a "coup de tête" - he compresses the intellectual-emotional essence of his other works, adding to and exaggerating them, often with sarcasm and paradox. "There are genuine pearls, indeed crown jewels among them, sayings with an elegance of formulation, with a concise brevity and precise punchlines that are unmatched in the entire aphoristic forest of the present," says church critic Hubertus Mynarek. For philosopher Hermann Josef S.