What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?
Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.