But that age … exerts on us An almost terrible charm, Like the memory of things seen And a life lived in dreams. - Heinrich Heine

Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.

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.

Von allen Welten, die der Mensch erschaffen hat, ist die der Bücher die Gewaltigste.