What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

What for others is style, for me is soul.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.