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

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 good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

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

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

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.

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.