We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human'.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start

Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light!

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument