Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

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

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.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated