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• Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
• I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter
• The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit…
• Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves
• Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the…
• Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him
• The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated
• The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
• What for others is style, for me is soul.
• A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after…
• 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.

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