comic

ideal

The comic is the continual negation of nature.

is created the moment we form it as a thought in God's mind.

At the moment that we form an ideal the thought arises in God's mind to create it.

is to be understood by studying their excuses.

If you want to understand men, study their excuses.

Pain is a possession, like happiness and joy.

Religion is expanded friendship. Superstition is the only true belief.

is only ever comprehensible when we've read every other important writer once.

One must read every important writer once, in order to reach the point of being able to read him at all.