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November 25.
But what do you want to do with this stupid, heavy God who, like the Trojan horse, carries men in his flanks?
November 27.
Air is the body of ether, flame is the body of fire, water is the body of air, earth is the body of water.
Castrated. Does nature not make us so when age brings etc. And are we unhappy then?
And here is what happens then. Through a kind of physical abstraction (if one may speak so), through, I say, a kind of physical abstraction that habit makes easy and that takes place through a certain mixture of presence joined with inattention, they perceive or feel provocative objects without feeling an appetite for them, as on other occasions they happen to feel or perceive disgusting objects without even experiencing the idea of what in them can arouse repugnance and revulsion. The points of what causes aversion and pleasure in us are then completely blunted, although the arrow remains whole and we are struck by it. (at Pontarlier, on the descent.)
However much they gave materialism to the people, the people always made spiritualism of it.
November 29.
Every novelty, unless it has some antiquity to support it, lacks foundation and solidity. It can neither establish itself nor endure.
November 1.
Plato is the Rabelais of abstractions.
November 24.
On the Orphic or literary life.
...In literature he was a knowledgeable crossbowman. No one in the world ever knew better how to dart his thought and drive it into attention.
Do not cast your mind upon running waters.
November 30.
...If the mind is not master of the body!...
Necessity of this dominion. — It must be master of the body not merely through an effort of will, but through the energy and power of tastes more exquisite than the body’s, through the habit of order and the ruling love of what is best and most beautiful.
The light rules the heavy.
When light rules shadow, when the fine rules the thick, when the clear rules the obscure, when spirit rules bodies, intelligence matter, then the beautiful rules the deformed and good rules evil.
Beyond what we see, the mind always leaps there.