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One should give people reasons good not only for us, but also good for them.
All beings of the same species are contained one within another by encasement or embedding.
The multitude of words filling our books proclaims our ignorance and the obscurities that fill all our knowledge. If we were perfectly enlightened, our books of morals would contain only maxims, and our books of physics and spirituality only axioms and facts. Everything else in them is mere padding and shows only our searches, our efforts, and our perplexities.
August 1.
Most sciences denature us, in that most of us were not born for them.
Deism. Humankind cannot accommodate itself to it. This doctrine is proportioned to our strength, but not to our weakness.
Mathematics. The exclusive preference given to them in education has great drawbacks. Which.
One must also teach the mind to play in the vague. The moral world and the intellectual world are full of it.
June …2.
Illusion is an integral part of reality. It is essentially bound to it, as effect is bound to cause. (Integral part, that is, a part without which a thing lacks the full integrity of its constitution or its application, etc.)
July …2.
— You needed the soul of a child; you called my child. And now he is in your bosom, intimately united with you. Blessed be your holy name.
— When I wish your holy name to be blessed, it is for the happiness of mortals; for the ages in which you are little worshiped are not happy ages.
July 20.
Objects often present themselves to the mind with the same inversion of order, rank, or kind that is expressed by antiphrasis.
August 22.
— Time immemorial.
August 28.
It is better to err with another’s error than with one’s own private and personal error, first because etc.
August.
“It is not decent to contradict people in their own house,” says the tale. Thus every man has the right to be absolute master in his house, to live there as a king, and to be happy there even through his self-love. There, his infirmities and all his faults are, as it were, allowed to be at ease. He is at home. Whoever comes there enters a foreign empire. Such privileges, among civilized peoples, make domestic life delightful and preferable to all the independences of the brutish and isolated man. This life, moreover, has duties that perpetually require the sacrifice of these rights, but relinquishing them is voluntary, pleasant, generous, honorable, almost glorious, and thus becomes a possession, an enjoyment, and one more good that one gives oneself.