“All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.”

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

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.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

In the beginning was simplicity.

Happiness left when one began chasing it. It was always there.

Not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.

Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.

Love begins with listening.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

Every year, every moment, every breath & every blink can be a new beginning.