The hypnotic sensation of nothingness, the peace of deepest sleep, anaesthesia in short⁠—that is what passes with the sufferers and the absolutely depressed for, forsooth, their supreme good, their value of values; that is what

must be treasured by them as something positive, be felt by them as the essence of the Positive (according to the same logic of the feelings, nothingness is in all pessimistic religions called God).