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The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.

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

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Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

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

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Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

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The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

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A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: August 27th, 1730

Died: June 21st, 1788

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