"Besides, I am a reprobate," said he, "if I do not do it; good God, is not then the very sense of existence, [101] and the first sweet breakfast after every waking, a standing enjoyment?"–He reflected, to be sure, that culture gives us spectacles, and takes away in return the papillæ of the tongue, and compensates to us for our pleasures by the better definitions of them (just as the silk-worm, as caterpillar, has taste , but no eyes , and, as butterfly, has eyes without taste), he confessed to himself, indeed, that he had too much understanding to have so much contentment as the Auenthal schoolman Wutz, and that he philosophized too deeply besides; but he also insisted upon this: that "a higher wisdom must nevertheless (because otherwise the all-wise would be necessarily the all-unhappy ) find a way again out of the sweltry parterre of the lecture-room into a parterre of flowers.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul