“The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.”

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.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.

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

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.

Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.