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

"[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis"

"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…"

"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…"