... Divine Love Is Not Something Belonging

On The Other Hand, The Pleasure Caused By Laughter, Even On The Stage, Is Not An Unadulterated Enjoyment; It Is Not A Pleasure That Is Exclusively Esthetic Or Altogether Disinterested. It Always Implies A Secret Or Unconscious Intent, If Not Of Each One Of Us, At All Events Of Society As A Whole. In Laughter We Always Find An Unavowed Intention To Humiliate, And Consequently To Correct Our Neighbour, If Not In His Will, At Least In His Deed.

However Spontaneous It Seems, Laughter Always Implies A Kind Of Secret Freemasonry, Or Even Complicity, With Other Laughers, Real Or Imaginary.

In Short, Intelligence, Considered In What Seems To Be Its Original Feature, Is The Faculty Of Manufacturing Artificial Objects, Especially Tools To Make Tools, And Of Indefinitely Urging The Manufacture.

The Present Contains Nothing More Than The Past, And What Is Found In The Effect Was Already In The Cause.

Life Does Not Proceed By The Association And Addition Of Elements, But By Dissociation And Division.