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September […].
— and is truth then a thing of so little worth that, if we cannot take it with our hands, it is unreasonable to seize it in any other way and, so to speak, with our feet — I mean through conjecture, through the etc., through the etc.?
Bees and hornets. God played at casting a ray of intelligence into them and a principle of order into their associations.
To make air sound, one must make it sharp, twist it, and pinch it. Every sound comes from sharpened air, even the noise of thunder.
The perspicacity of the weak, the melancholy, etc.
Everything that weeps is innocent at that moment. (Unless the tears are of vexation or anger.)
September […]9.
A square on towers, in place of weather vanes: mathematics takes the place of the fine arts. (from nature, at Montignac.)
Regular and leveling figures, in place of beautiful and enlarging ones.
A weather vane with its ornaments offers no figure that can be specified in geometry. Geometry admits, and can admit, only figures that serve to determine measures.
(The one enlarges, the other measures.)
To heap Ossa on Pelion, one matter on another, to reach the Gods; not to fight them but to adore them.
September 20.
To concern oneself with small objects as with great ones, to be fit and ready for both, is not weakness and smallness, but capacity, competence.