“How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.”

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.

Dare to think!

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.

It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

If Love is too much to ask, at least Respect everyone, regardless of race, creed, sexual preference, bloodline, criminal history, power, or position.

I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a fantasy. I always start from myself, because you have to know yourself first.

I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

A vaccine, when available, must be free and available to all people regardless of income.

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.