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Man and earth, the inhabitant and the place, the pedestal and the statue. They are formed from the same block.
September 23.
Where do thoughts go? Into God’s memory.
October 4.
Plato said of the harmonious sound he attributed to the spheres: I have sometimes heard it in my sleep.
October 8.
What the declaimer is to eloquence, the sophist is to philosophy. The sophists learned to philosophize, that is, to speak and not to think as philosophers.
October 23.
One must at least be clear when one is not luminous, and that is what all the Greeks were.
October 17.
Innkeeper. Let no one be an innkeeper who has not traveled. That is, who has not himself been a wayfarer and a stranger in an unknown land.
October 8.
It is with governments as with religions. If men do not worship a spirit, they worship an image. If they do not worship an image, they worship an animal. If they do not worship an animal, they worship something beneath it, like a serpent, a crocodile, an old monkey, an onion, a louse.
December 14.
Note that every point of every heavenly body illuminates a world. (Perhaps in the same way that ours is illuminated.)
December 25.
It may be permissible to disparage a man’s performance and role, but never his being or his conduct unless he makes a display of them. One may hiss him in his theater, but not inside his house or in the street. He must always be treated as he presents himself.
Beautiful divisions please us because they clearly impress upon us the idea of a portion of space; just as beautiful harmony makes us feel, without calculation or attention, the movement and rest that are the elements of time.
December 26.
It is the way light settles that makes colors.
Any system is often only a new error that we do not know how to refute because it had not existed before and we have not had time to train ourselves to combat it.