Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

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.

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.