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From ill temper a vapor rises through which one sees everything falsely.
July ….
Inward, intimate self-evidence. Clarity without brilliance. Constituted by ease of belief. Invidence, in a word, if that word may be used.
As he is without color and without form, one sees him without distinguishing him. One has the feeling of his presence, not of his appearance. One has intuition of him, not sight.
July 3.
Words whose sound, clarity, and (so to speak) volume are diminished. That is, they express nothing that is not softened. They are in language what semitones are in music, and form an achromatic genre within it. They come into favor when a language has acquired all its energy and used it a great deal, and this weakening becomes a novelty that strikes one and pleases when it is elegant. Highly cultivated minds are content with it for a long time. In the end it is insufficient, and its disadvantages at that point...
Our arms are sticks of flesh with which the soul reaches and touches.
July 4.
Might the earth’s inner fire not be necessary to keep water molten. And might water not be necessary to temper this fire?
July 5.
In a grain of sand there is fire, water, air, and dust.
The earth is a globe of fire sprinkled with a little dust, where a few lines of water flow, and suspended in the air like all the other heavenly bodies, which have more or less the same form and are of the same nature.
Air itself is only the body of another, much subtler air.
To change my diamonds into pearls...
Saci. He has shaved, powdered, and curled the Bible, but at least he has not rouged it.
Free peoples are those who have the power and the ease to rid themselves of their laws when they dislike them.
We love machines, especially those in which the [ ] and the gears can be seen. We admire a jet of water more than a spring. But a spring is also a jet of water... So in politics, etc...
Those whose vices or madness suit the age in which they live are fitted to gain ascendancy and vogue.