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

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

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.

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

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

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