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

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.

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

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.

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

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

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