"Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror…"

"Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure schol…"

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

"Through a vicious circle of pure reason skepsis itself becomes dogma."

"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of re…"

"The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice ve…"

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

"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, — the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the …"

"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."

"A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such …"