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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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