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.

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.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

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

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

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

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