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.

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

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter

What for others is style, for me is soul.

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

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.

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