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.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

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

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

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.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated