Religion Is To Mysticism What

I Believe That The Time Given To Refutation In Philosophy Is Usually Time Lost. Of The Many Attacks Directed By Many Thinkers Against Each Other, What Now Remains? Nothing, Or Assuredly Very Little. That Which Counts And Endures Is The Modicum Of Positive Truth Which Each Contributes. The True Statement Is, Of Itself, Able To Displace The Erroneous Idea, And Becomes, Without Our Having Taken The Trouble Of Refuting Anyone, The Best Of Refutations.

The Idea Of The Future, Pregnant With An Infinity Of Possibilities, Is Thus More Fruitful Than The Future Itself, And This Is Why We Find More Charm In Hope Than In Possession, In Dreams Than In Reality.

Laughter Is, Above All, A Corrective. Being Intended To Humiliate, It Must Make A Painful Impression On The Person Against Whom It Is Directed. By Laughter, Society Avenges Itself For The Liberties Taken With It. It Would Fail In Its Object If It Bore The Stamp Of Sympathy Or Kindness.

... Divine Love Is Not Something Belonging To God: It Is God Himself.

To Perceive Means To Immobilize. To Say This Is To Say That We Seize, In The Act Of Perception, Something Which Outruns Perception Itself.