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

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.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

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

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

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

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