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.

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

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

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

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

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

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated