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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.