The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

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.

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

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

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.

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

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