Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Quotes
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All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.
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To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.
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It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!
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What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Born: January 25, 1743
- Died: March 10, 1819
- Occupation: Philosopher