Homo Sapiens, The Only Creature Endowed With

When It Is Said That An Object Occupies A Large Space In The Soul Or Even That It Fills It Entirely, We Ought To Understand By This Simply That Its Image Has Altered The Shade Of A Thousand Perceptions Or Memories, And That In This Sense It Pervades Them, Although It Does Not Itself Come Into View.

I Cannot Escape The Objection That There Is No State Of Mind, However Simple, That Does Not Change Every Moment

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

In Laughter We Always Find An Unavowed Intention To Humiliate And Consequently To Correct Our Neighbour.

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.