“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.

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

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.

To be is to do.

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.

Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.

Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.

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

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Woman wants control, man self-control.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.

I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.

I hold onto these beloved memories so close to my heart, the thought of forgetting tears me apart.

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It’s all in the mind.

Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.