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June 28.
For example, to have the pleasure of seeing someone dear, there must be an abundant effluvium from that person to us, making their presence perceptible to us, and from us to that person another effluvium produced by our own presence.
June 29.
Illusions. Evaporations, fumes. How full of fumes the world is.
June 27.
The distinction that must be established between truth and reality.
In questions of metaphysics, one must decide by clarity. Usefulness must decide in questions of morality and practice. Once one can say “it is advantageous to humankind,” one has proved what must be done. Likewise, when one has conceived clearly, one has found what must be believed.
Friday, July 6 (in a pleasant place.)
As soon as a line of reasoning attacks instinct or universal practice, — it may be difficult to refute, — but it is certainly deceptive. Although one may be unable to answer it, one must persist no less in resisting it. The wise man frees himself from it... Let us keep the common opinion.
The breath of God. God who created everything from his breath.
July 8.
Weight that attaches us to the earth or calls us back to it. One weighs only downward.
June 12.
...There, all our friendships will be continued.
July 13.
That nothing in the moral world is lost, just as nothing in the material world is annihilated. That all our feelings and all our thoughts here below are only the beginnings of feelings and thoughts that will be completed elsewhere.
July 18.
There is nothing good in man but his young feelings and his old thoughts.
Readings that, instead of making minds better, make them worse.
June 19.
The stars more beautiful to the eye than through the telescope, which strips them of their illusions.