Only Those Ideas That Are Least Truly

You Will Obtain A Vision Of Matter That Is Perhaps Fatiguing For Your Imagination, But Pure And Stripped Of What The Requirements Of Life Make You Add To It In External Perception.

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.

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

Homo Sapiens, The Only Creature Endowed With Reason, Is Also The Only Creature To Pin Its Existence On Things Unreasonable.

An Absolute Can Only Be Given In An Intuition, While All The Rest Has To Do With Analysis.