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

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

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.

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