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.

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.

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.

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.

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

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated