“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.

A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

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

The hand is the visible part of the brain.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.

The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.

When you’re young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.

I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

If I’ve got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.