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(In the Apollo). — And something like the posture of an orator who has just loosed an irony.
On Angels. If they wrote, how. If it were for men... and if it were for their own kind... and if it were for God...
Two indisputable truths, if they do not agree, it is certain that this is through our ignorance and not through their being or nature.
One of those articles of faith that one must believe, if you wish, but with which one need not, at least, concern oneself. What! Are there not, in all the sciences that touch upon man, many things one must know and would do well not to think about?
— In such cases, the sound is then like a phenomenon that has made certain circumstances more memorable to us and serves better to recall them to us.
October 31.
One could very well dance or put into pantomime a chapter of Sterne. Even a few chapters of Montesquieu. The chapter on despotism, for example.
Chimeras of thought. But are these inventions of the mind not sometimes aids it fashions for itself, expedients and machines it invents to...?
... and — Relations that do not concern men.
Ch: he has sometimes rouged religion as B. has rouged the world.
The odd is a beginning. Everything begins with an odd number, and unity, which is not paired, may be considered odd. The ancients, however, had a different idea of it from ours.
November 1.
And subtlety well becomes elevated things, and especially heavenly ones. It is one of their qualities. Air and vapors, fogs, are not of the same nature; and subtlety does not have the same excuse here. Dust that flies is an earth that is no longer what it ought to be.
The mind accustomed to allowing itself only a certain kind of words soon makes itself an ample dictionary of them, and its abundance in this regard, its very wealth, has no other source, no other cause than habit.