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

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.

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

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

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.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

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.