"[He who] makes his appeal to feeling, to an oracle within his breast, tramples ...
"[He who] makes his appeal to feeling, to an oracle within his breast, tramples underfoot the roots of humanity. ... human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds. The anti-human... stay[s] within the sphere of feeling" - Hegel
"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaph...
"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us." Paul Valery