"Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human exist…"

"The accidents of our bodily constitution can always play this revealing role on the condition that they become a mean…"

"By becoming the pure subject who knows the world objectively, man ultimately realizes that absolute consciousness wit…"

"The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.'"

"Hardness and softness, roughness and smoothness, moonlight and sunlight present themselves in our recollection not pr…"

"Language transcends us and yet, we speak."

"The function [of objective thinking] is to reduce all phenomena which bear witness to the union of subject and world,…"

"It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession.”"

"Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent th…"

"Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think…"