Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
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Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.Johann G. Hamann
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
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The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
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Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
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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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