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.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

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.

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

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.