Logic is half geometry, and metaphysics is half poetry, which consists in giving a transparent body to what has no body, as poetry gives soul.

Another mark of elementary and pure truth: pleasure; the pleasure the soul receives from it.

May […]ᵉʳ.

Everything geometry teaches is true only for the one who has learned it.

Fine truths, whose statement can be heard, understood only by one who already knows them after studying them for a long time.

May […].

Ideas do not all come through the senses any more than they all come through the flesh.

Is it a question of making oneself intelligible or not?

May […].

47 years... Fiat voluntas tua!.

May 10.

Style of the N[ecker]s). Their writings, a kind of drama in which reason, thought, inquiries, truth are perpetually put on stage and into action.

May 11.

Figure, movement. Everything is done, says Paschal, through figure and through movement. Say in that case that everything is done through movement, for every figure is only the remaining trace of a movement already ceased. Thus the letters I am forming, for example, at this moment are only the remaining trace of the movement my hand gave itself and my pen drew.

Whoever does not discern faults may merely lack cool judgment. But one who cannot discern a beauty and lets his attention glide over it without noticing it, that one, I say, lacks a sense, a faculty, a merit.

May 12.

His will is an all-powerful hand that his intelligence puts to work.

May 16.

The sensitive plant. Botanists have called it mimosa or the personnaire.