Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

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

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

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

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

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

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.