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

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

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

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

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

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