Realism Is In The Work When Idealism

The Motive Power Of Democracy Is Love

An Absolute Can Only Be Given In An Intuition, While All The Rest Has To Do With Analysis. We Call Intuition Here The Sympathy By Which One Is Transported Into The Interior Of An Object In Order To Coincide With What There Is Unique Andconsequently Inexpressible In It. Analysis, On The Contrary, Is The Operation Which Reduces The Object To Elements Already Known.

Knowledge, In So Far As It Is Directed To Practical Matters, Has Only To Enumerate The Principal Possible Attitudes Of The Thing Towards Us, As Well As Our Best Possible Attitude Towards It. Therein Lies The Ordinary Function Of Ready-made Concepts, Those Stations With Which We Mark Out The Path Of Becoming. But To Seek To Penetrate With Them Into The Inmost Nature Of Things, Is To Apply To The Mobility Of The Real A Method Created In Order To Give Stationary Points Of Observation On It.

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

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