In the object which he contemplates … man becomes acquainted with himself.

[T]he object to which a subject essentially, necessarily relates, is nothing else than this subject's own … objective nature.

Whatever kind of object … we are at any time conscious of, we are always at the same time conscious of our own nature[.]

Each planet has its own sun. … [I]t really is another sun on Uranus … The relation of the Sun to the Earth is therefore at the same time a relation of the Earth to itself, or to its own nature … Hence each planet has in its sun the mirror of its own nature.

The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists[.]

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.