Dans les périodes obscures, la religion est le meilleur guide des hommes, de même que par une nuit noire un aveugle connait mieux les routes et les c… - Heinrich Heine

There, where one burns books, on in the end burns men.

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.

I ought also here to speak of Jakob Bohme. For he too used the German language for philosophical treatises, and has gained high praise in this regard. But I have never yet been able to sit down and read him. I do not like to be made a fool of... Charles I was so impressed by this theosophical cobbler that he sent a scholar specially to Gorlitz to study him. This scholar was more fortunate than his royal master. For while the latter lost his head at Whitehall by Cromwell's axe, at Gorlitz the former, thanks to Jakob Bohme's theosophy, only lost his wits.